Photo: AliveFreeHappy · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means St. George for more than half of Santa Clara’s working residents
Working from home is the commute for 10% of workers (Utah 18%). Santa Clara grades A− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 7% work in Santa Clara itself; outside it, St. George draws the most (60%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Santa Clara: the figures worth knowing
Jobs in Santa Clara have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Santa Clara went from 643 in 2013 to 1,516 in 2023, +136%. The jobs ↓
Most Santa Clara residents work close to home
76% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. How far ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
33% of the jobs based in Santa Clara are held by workers 29 or younger, against 28% of Santa Clara’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Santa Clara’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Santa Clara is better than 77% of U.S. towns, #65 of 119 in Utah. The poverty rate holds Santa Clara’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Santa Clara could be anywhere from B to A.
The 1,516 jobs based in Santa Clara
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Santa Clara, 2013 → 2023: 643 → 1,516. 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 Santa Clara’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Santa Clara
About 16% 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.
How many people are in Santa Clara by day
On a workday 3,144 residents head out to work, 230 work right here, and 1,286 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,900 people are in Santa Clara on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.45 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Commuting out of Santa Clara: the destinations
Where Santa Clara clocks in
60% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
About 19 minutes each way for Santa Clara’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Santa Clara workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,425 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.
Santa Clara is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Santa Clara is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #103 of 119 in Utah. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,818 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). 3.1% of Santa Clara households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Santa Clara’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Santa Clara is 894th among 2,927 U.S. towns of 6,100 to 11,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | South Weber UT | 8,218 | $139K | 2.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 171 | Plain City UT | 9,256 | $133K | 2.6% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 209 | Stansbury Park UT | 11,242 | $127K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 892 | Jefferson Township OH | 8,927 | $82K | 7.9% | 2.9% | 10% | A− |
| 893 | West Greenwich RI | 6,750 | $136K | 2.3% | 7.4% | 7% | A− |
| 894 | Santa Clara UT | 8,722 | $96K | 3.9% | 2.9% | 7% | A− |
| 895 | Brighton Township PA | 8,791 | $115K | 6.0% | 4.9% | 6% | A− |
| 896 | Middlesex Township PA | 7,513 | $114K | 7.0% | 4.3% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,927 | 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 Santa Clara, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Next door is work for 64% of Santa Clara
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Santa Clara workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara | – | A− | C+ | 19 min | $96,475 |
| St. George | 60% | B− | B+ | 17 min | $76,508 |
| Ivins | 4% | C | B | 18 min | $78,089 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to St. George. Darker towns draw more of Santa Clara’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Santa Clara: questions
What is the median household income in Santa Clara?
$96,475 (±$5,727) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Santa Clara?
3.9%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Santa Clara?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Santa Clara work?
7% work in town.
Is Santa Clara walkable?
Santa Clara is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Santa Clara without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Santa Clara, from the people who make the trip.
More of Santa Clara
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.