Photo: Ntsimp · Public domainAt 6.3%, unemployment in Naples is higher than in 77% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are higher than in 75% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Naples are B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, against 18% across Utah.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Naples
Naples and Vernal trade workers both ways
Vernal is the top workplace for Naples residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Naples come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Naples pay better than its residents’ jobs
74% of the jobs based in Naples pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 55% of the jobs Naples residents hold. 95% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Naples. The jobs ↓
Naples makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Naples are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Naples residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Naples are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 22 across Utah. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Utah worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Naples’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Naples is better than 53% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Naples’ grade up (3.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Naples could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
35% of working residents work in Vernal
Where Naples clocks in
35% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 42% of the jobs in Naples
1,513 jobs are based in Naples.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Naples, 2013 → 2023: 1,950 → 1,513. 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 Naples’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 16 minutes to work from Naples
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Naples workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,199 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.
Who commutes out of Naples, and who commutes in
On a workday 991 residents head out to work, 78 work right here, and 1,435 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Naples on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.42 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.
Half of Naples commutes less than 4 miles
About 31% 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.
In Naples, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Naples is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,271 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.0% of Naples households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Naples’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Naples is 2,224th of 5,401 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 85 | Lake Point UT | 2,947 | $137K | 2.0% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 421 | Richmond UT | 3,130 | $110K | 1.0% | 0.8% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 456 | River Heights UT | 2,253 | $118K | 5.5% | 2.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,222 | Brookville IN | 2,663 | $56K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 16% | B− |
| 2,223 | Mount Sterling OH | 2,051 | $73K | 12.5% | 4.8% | 7% | B− |
| 2,224 | Naples UT | 2,488 | $98K | 3.1% | 6.3% | 7% | B− |
| 2,225 | Riley Township IN | 3,174 | $97K | 12.5% | 4.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,226 | Union Township OH | 1,947 | $67K | 1.5% | 3.2% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,401 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Naples, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
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 Naples: questions
What is the median household income in Naples?
$97,865 (±$8,299) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Naples?
3.1%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Naples?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Naples work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vernal (35%, 3 mi), Salt Lake City (4%, 130 mi), Roosevelt (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Naples walkable?
Naples is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Naples 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 Naples, from the people who make the trip.
More of Naples
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.