More people are out of work in Roosevelt (6.1%) than in 75% of U.S. towns
6% of workers have no commute at all, against 18% across Utah. Roosevelt grades C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About one in three work in Roosevelt; the top destination outside it is Vernal (4%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Roosevelt, in brief
How Roosevelt earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Roosevelt is better than 22% of U.S. towns, #111 of 119 in Utah. Household income holds Roosevelt’s grade up ($76,456, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Roosevelt could be anywhere from D to C+.
The trip to work from Roosevelt: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roosevelt workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,748 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Roosevelt
On a workday 2,130 residents head out to work, 1,235 work right here, and 2,831 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,700 people are in Roosevelt on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 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 Roosevelt goes to work
Where Roosevelt clocks in
4% 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.
What work there is in Roosevelt: 4,066 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roosevelt, 2013 → 2023: 4,373 → 4,066. 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 Roosevelt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Roosevelt commutes
About 28% 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.
Roosevelt is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Roosevelt is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns, #32 of 119 in Utah. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 8.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,925 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). 5.6% of Roosevelt households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Roosevelt’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Roosevelt ranks: 2,677th of 3,227 U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Fruit Heights UT | 5,952 | $141K | 3.9% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 85 | West Bountiful UT | 5,931 | $135K | 3.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | South Weber UT | 8,218 | $139K | 2.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,675 | Liberty TX | 9,133 | $54K | 25.2% | 4.2% | 12% | C− |
| 2,676 | Franklin LA | 6,224 | $40K | 27.3% | 2.8% | 26% | C− |
| 2,677 | Roosevelt UT | 7,032 | $76K | 15.9% | 6.1% | 37% | C− |
| 2,678 | Chillicothe MO | 9,114 | $54K | 16.8% | 3.6% | 45% | C− |
| 2,679 | Luzerne Township PA | 5,433 | $58K | 16.8% | 4.7% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,227 | 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 Roosevelt, 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 Roosevelt: questions
What is the median household income in Roosevelt?
$76,456 (±$4,854) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roosevelt?
15.9%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roosevelt?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roosevelt work?
37% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vernal (4%, 26 mi), Ballard (3%, 2 mi), Salt Lake City (3%, 107 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Roosevelt walkable?
Roosevelt is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roosevelt without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roosevelt, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roosevelt
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.