Photo: The UtahraptorTalk/Contribs · CC BY-SA 3.0How Myton works: jobs, income and commuting
The average commute takes 13 minutes each way; Utah averages 22, the U.S. 26. At home: 6% of workers have no commute at all (Utah 18%). Only 2% work in Myton itself; outside it, Roosevelt draws the most (21%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Myton on a workday
On a workday 185 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 151 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Myton: the destinations
Where Myton clocks in
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What Myton’s employers do
154 jobs are based in Myton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Myton, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 154. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Myton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 13 minutes to work from Myton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Myton workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 227 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Myton
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Myton: questions
What is the median household income in Myton?
$62,292 (±$16,595) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Myton?
26.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Myton?
13 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Myton work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roosevelt (21%, 8 mi), Altamont (6%, 16 mi), Duchesne (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Myton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Myton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Myton
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.