Photo: Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0Making a living in Richfield
Jobs and income earn Richfield C+; getting around on foot earns it A−. Home is the office for 10% of workers, where Utah as a whole has 18%. About two in five work in Richfield itself; outside it, Salina draws the most (4%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Richfield in brief
Commutes from Richfield are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 22 across Utah. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Utah worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Richfield
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Richfield is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #100 of 119 in Utah. Unemployment holds Richfield’s grade up (3.7%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Richfield could be anywhere from C− to B.
Each way, about 13 minutes from Richfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Richfield workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,118 commuters (the 10% 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.
Richfield’s commute, mile by mile
About 36% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 2,275 residents head out to work, 1,542 work right here, and 2,767 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.13 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.
Where Richfield goes to work
Where Richfield clocks in
4% 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.
Jobs in Richfield: what the 4,309 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Richfield, 2013 → 2023: 3,553 → 4,309. 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 Richfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Richfield
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Richfield is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns, #43 of 119 in Utah. Both inputs place Richfield near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,462 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). 6.7% of Richfield households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Richfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Richfield is 2,112th among 2,981 U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Fruit Heights UT | 5,952 | $141K | 3.9% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | West Bountiful UT | 5,931 | $135K | 3.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | South Weber UT | 8,218 | $139K | 2.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,110 | Crestline CA | 9,835 | $78K | 11.3% | 7.0% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,111 | Wapakoneta OH | 9,711 | $66K | 11.8% | 5.3% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,112 | Richfield UT | 8,478 | $75K | 12.5% | 3.7% | 40% | C+ |
| 2,113 | Pukalani HI | 8,679 | $103K | 10.6% | 9.7% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,114 | Madison Heights VA | 10,266 | $60K | 10.5% | 5.2% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | 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 Richfield, 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 Richfield: questions
What is the median household income in Richfield?
$74,756 (±$5,479) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Richfield?
12.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Richfield?
13 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Richfield work?
40% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salina (4%, 17 mi), St. George (3%, 142 mi), Salt Lake City (3%, 139 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Richfield walkable?
Richfield is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Richfield without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Richfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Richfield
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.