Household incomes in Rocky Ridge are higher than in 73% of U.S. towns
For 7% of workers, the job is at home (Utah 18%). Poverty touches 12.7% of residents; Utah has 8.5%. The two grades for Rocky Ridge are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Rocky Ridge stands out on work
Rocky Ridge makes and builds things
91% of the jobs based in Rocky Ridge are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Rocky Ridge residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Rocky Ridge and Nephi trade workers both ways
Nephi is the top workplace for Rocky Ridge residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Rocky Ridge come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Rocky Ridge are quick
The average trip to work takes 9 minutes, against 22 across Utah. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical Utah worker. Time on the road ↓
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 288 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Rocky Ridge: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Rocky Ridge is better than 38% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Rocky Ridge’s grade up ($95,625, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Rocky Ridge’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Rocky Ridge could be anywhere from C− to B.
Goods jobs make up 91% of work in Rocky Ridge
437 jobs are based in Rocky Ridge.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rocky Ridge, 2013 → 2023: 131 → 437. 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 Rocky Ridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Rocky Ridge live
Where Rocky Ridge clocks in
18% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
A commute of about 9 minutes in Rocky Ridge
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rocky Ridge workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 398 commuters (the 7% 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.
Who commutes out of Rocky Ridge, and who commutes in
On a workday 273 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 422 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Rocky Ridge on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Rocky Ridge
About 23% 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 commute in Rocky Ridge is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rocky Ridge is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 23.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 428 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). 0.0% of Rocky Ridge households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rocky Ridge’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rocky Ridge places 1,733rd of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 161 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,731 | Pine Mountain GA | 1,303 | $91K | 18.5% | 1.2% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,732 | Larimore ND | 1,359 | $88K | 8.3% | 2.5% | 12% | C+ |
| 1,733 | Rocky Ridge UT | 1,078 | $96K | 12.7% | 1.6% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,734 | Honey Creek Township IL | 1,450 | $93K | 10.4% | 0.3% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,735 | Concord VA | 1,462 | $71K | 13.3% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Rocky Ridge, 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 Rocky Ridge: questions
What is the median household income in Rocky Ridge?
$95,625 (±$13,473) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rocky Ridge?
12.7%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rocky Ridge?
9 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rocky Ridge work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nephi (18%, 15 mi), Provo (6%, 24 mi), Payson (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rocky Ridge walkable?
Rocky Ridge is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 23% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rocky Ridge 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 Rocky Ridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rocky Ridge
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.