Photo: Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Oak City works elsewhere
Home is the office for 8% of workers (Utah 18%). There are 18 jobs in Oak City for 273 working residents. Hardly any work in Oak City itself; outside it, Delta draws the most (37%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Oak City, in a few figures
Oak City is a place people come home to
There are 18 jobs based in Oak City, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Oak City has about 400 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Oak City and Delta trade workers both ways
Delta is the top workplace for Oak City residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Oak City come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 273 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Oak City
On a workday 272 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 400 people are in Oak City on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
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 Oak City: the destinations
Where Oak City clocks in
37% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
Miles to work from Oak City
About 35% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 39% of the jobs in Oak City
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak City, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 18. 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 Oak City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Oak City, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak City workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 218 commuters (the 8% 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.
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 Oak City: questions
What is the median household income in Oak City?
$73,479 (±$2,029) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak City?
11.4%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak City?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak City work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delta (37%, 10 mi), Salt Lake City (4%, 99 mi), Fillmore (3%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Oak City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oak City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oak City
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.