South Willard has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Measured by household income, South Willard is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns. There are 206 jobs in South Willard, against 729 working residents. South Willard grades A for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
South Willard at work: what stands out
South Willard and Ogden trade workers both ways
Ogden is the top workplace for South Willard residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in South Willard come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
South Willard is a place people come home to
There are 206 jobs based in South Willard, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday South Willard has about 1,000 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 729 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where South Willard’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income is its strongest input ($119,327, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: South Willard’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, South Willard could be anywhere from B+ to A.
16% of working residents work in Ogden
Where South Willard clocks in
16% of workers
12% of workers
9% 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.
How a workday changes South Willard
On a workday 720 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 197 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in South Willard on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Goods, not services: 36% of the jobs in South Willard
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in South Willard, 2013 → 2023: 128 → 206. 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 South Willard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From South Willard, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of South Willard workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 665 commuters (the 18% 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 South Willard
About 18% 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.
South Willard is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 813 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.9% of South Willard households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of South Willard’s commuters take a bus or train.
358th of 5,794: where South Willard ranks among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 153 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 317 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 328 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 356 | Kasota Township MN | 1,621 | $120K | 2.3% | 2.6% | 3% | A |
| 357 | Wheeler AFB HI | 2,097 | $92K | 1.3% | 4.9% | 2% | A |
| 358 | South Willard UT | 1,532 | $119K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| 359 | Palo IA | 1,551 | $106K | 5.5% | 1.9% | 1% | A |
| 360 | Oregon Township IN | 1,881 | $91K | 1.0% | 1.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 South Willard, 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 South Willard: questions
What is the median household income in South Willard?
$119,327 (±$16,994) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in South Willard?
4.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from South Willard?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in South Willard work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ogden (16%, 10 mi), Brigham City (12%, 10 mi), Salt Lake City (9%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is South Willard walkable?
South Willard is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around South Willard without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from South Willard, from the people who make the trip.
More of South Willard
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.