Ensign-Smith House · Photo: Tom Carter · Public domainWith 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Paragonah works elsewhere
33 jobs are based in Paragonah, and 130 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Paragonah; the top destination outside it is Cedar City (21%, 22 miles). For 5% of workers, the job is at home; Utah has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Paragonah: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 129 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 32 people come in from elsewhere.
About 480 people are in Paragonah 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.
Commuting out of Paragonah: the destinations
Where Paragonah clocks in
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.
What Paragonah’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paragonah, 2013 → 2023: 75 → 33. 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 Paragonah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Paragonah, about 32 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paragonah workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 184 commuters (the 5% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Paragonah
About 40% 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.
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 Paragonah: questions
What is the median household income in Paragonah?
$64,271 (±$22,515) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paragonah?
8.2%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paragonah?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paragonah work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cedar City (21%, 22 mi), Parowan (20%, 5 mi), Brian Head (8%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Paragonah without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paragonah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paragonah
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.