Photo: Adc0317 · CC BY-SA 4.0Oljato-Monument Valley draws 225 commuters a day, with 7.0 jobs for every working resident
At home: 6% of workers have no commute at all (Utah 18%). Oljato-Monument Valley has 230 jobs, against 33 working residents. About one in seven stay in Oljato-Monument Valley for work; outside it, Blanding is the main destination (9%, 58 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Oljato-Monument Valley, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 28 residents head out to work and 5 work right here.
About 870 people are in Oljato-Monument Valley on a workday afternoon, 29% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where the people who work in Oljato-Monument Valley live
Where Oljato-Monument Valley clocks in
9% of workers
3% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Oljato-Monument Valley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oljato-Monument Valley, 2014 → 2024: 263 → 230. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oljato-Monument Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Oljato-Monument Valley’s commute takes about 47 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oljato-Monument Valley workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 197 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.
Miles to work from Oljato-Monument Valley
About 74% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Oljato-Monument Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Oljato-Monument Valley?
$30,227 (±$23,106) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oljato-Monument Valley?
35.8%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oljato-Monument Valley?
47 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oljato-Monument Valley work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Blanding (9%, 58 mi), Page (3%, 70 mi), Cortez (3%, 95 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Oljato-Monument Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oljato-Monument Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oljato-Monument Valley
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.