Photo: Ntsimp · Public domainMost of Orangeville commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
159 jobs are based in Orangeville for 372 working residents. Orangeville grades C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 4% of workers work from home; Utah has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Orangeville: the gist
Fewer jobs are based in Orangeville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Orangeville fell from 980 in 2013 to 159 in 2023, −84%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
44% 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 ↓
Orangeville and Castle Dale trade workers both ways
Castle Dale is the top workplace for Orangeville residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Orangeville come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 372 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Orangeville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Orangeville is better than 20% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Orangeville’s grade up ($90,086, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Orangeville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Orangeville could be anywhere from D to B−.
In Orangeville, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orangeville, 2013 → 2023: 980 → 159. 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 Orangeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Orangeville’s workers travel
About 44% 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.
The towns that employ Orangeville’s residents
Where Orangeville clocks in
18% of workers
8% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Orangeville
On a workday 354 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 141 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Orangeville on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Each way, about 16 minutes from Orangeville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orangeville workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 645 commuters (the 4% 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.
Most of Orangeville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orangeville is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 673 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). 1.2% of Orangeville households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Orangeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Orangeville next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 3,322nd of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 225 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 234 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,320 | Broad Top Township PA | 1,454 | $62K | 9.2% | 6.9% | 1% | C− |
| 3,321 | Enchanted Hills IN | 1,039 | $65K | 24.6% | 0.0% | <1% | C− |
| 3,322 | Orangeville UT | 1,271 | $90K | 20.2% | 2.1% | 5% | C− |
| 3,323 | Buffalo WV | 1,185 | $65K | 19.9% | 8.1% | 1% | C− |
| 3,324 | Pigeon Grove Township IL | 1,089 | $69K | 11.4% | 0.5% | 13% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Orangeville, 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 Orangeville: questions
What is the median household income in Orangeville?
$90,086 (±$24,970) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orangeville?
20.2%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orangeville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orangeville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Castle Dale (18%, 2 mi), Huntington (8%, 9 mi), Price (6%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Orangeville walkable?
Orangeville is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orangeville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orangeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orangeville
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.