Photo: Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller) · CC BY-SA 3.0Nephi has lower unemployment (1.6%) than 89% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Nephi is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Nephi A−; getting around on foot earns it B. 6% of workers work from home, next to 18% for Utah as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Nephi apart on work
Jobs & income in Nephi: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Nephi is better than 76% of U.S. towns, #67 of 119 in Utah. Unemployment holds Nephi’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Nephi could be anywhere from B to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Nephi
On a workday 2,082 residents head out to work, 1,186 work right here, and 1,278 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,700 people are in Nephi on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 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.
7% of working residents work in Provo
Where Nephi clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
What the 2,464 jobs in Nephi are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nephi, 2013 → 2023: 1,979 → 2,464. 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 Nephi’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way, about the UT average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nephi workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,229 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.
The commute from Nephi, by distance
About 21% 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.
Nephi is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Nephi is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #70 of 119 in Utah. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% of 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 3,421 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). 4.8% of Nephi households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Nephi’s commuters take a bus or train.
Nephi next to U.S. towns of 5,200 to 10,100: 940th of 3,125 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Fruit Heights UT | 5,952 | $141K | 3.9% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | West Bountiful UT | 5,931 | $135K | 3.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | South Weber UT | 8,218 | $139K | 2.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 938 | Linwood Township MN | 5,403 | $116K | 6.7% | 5.0% | 3% | A− |
| 939 | Briar Chapel NC | 6,049 | $166K | 0.6% | 8.2% | 2% | A− |
| 940 | Nephi UT | 7,488 | $106K | 4.9% | 1.6% | 36% | A− |
| 941 | Hampden ME | 8,078 | $112K | 7.5% | 2.4% | 11% | A− |
| 942 | Pacific MO | 7,824 | $63K | 5.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,125 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Nephi, 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 Nephi: questions
What is the median household income in Nephi?
$106,108 (±$9,108) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nephi?
4.9%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nephi?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nephi work?
36% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Provo (7%, 39 mi), Spanish Fork (4%, 30 mi), Orem (4%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nephi walkable?
Nephi is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nephi without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nephi, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nephi
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.