Charles Crawforth Farmstead · Photo: Roy Watson Jr · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Spring City works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Spring City C; getting around on foot earns it D−. Spring City has 32 jobs; 350 of its residents have a job. 4% of workers have no commute at all, next to 18% for Utah as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Spring City: the figures worth knowing
Spring City is a place people come home to
There are 32 jobs based in Spring City, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Spring City has about 730 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Spring City and Mount Pleasant trade workers both ways
Mount Pleasant is the top workplace for Spring City residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Spring City come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
46% 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; with 350 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Spring City’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Spring City is better than 34% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Spring City’s grade up (6.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.5%) is left out: Spring City’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, Spring City could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Spring City quiets down on a workday
On a workday 348 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Spring City on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
20% of working residents work in Mount Pleasant
Where Spring City clocks in
5% 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.
The commute from Spring City, by distance
About 46% 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.
What Spring City’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring City, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 32. 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 Spring City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Spring City, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring City workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 424 commuters (the 4% 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 commute in Spring City is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring City is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Spring City 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 443 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 Spring City households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Spring City’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Spring City is 1,572nd of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,570 | Littlerock CA | 1,398 | $57K | 6.9% | 3.3% | 2% | C |
| 1,571 | Blue Summit MO | 1,156 | $59K | 36.5% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| 1,572 | Spring City UT | 1,051 | $71K | 6.4% | 5.5% | 1% | C |
| 1,573 | Oneco Township IL | 1,239 | $70K | 11.1% | 8.6% | 5% | C |
| 1,574 | Larrabee WI | 1,251 | $81K | 14.4% | 2.3% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Spring City, 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 Spring City: questions
What is the median household income in Spring City?
$71,250 (±$2,525) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring City?
6.4%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring City?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring City work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Pleasant (20%, 5 mi), Moroni (5%, 6 mi), Provo (5%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring City walkable?
Spring City is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring City 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 Spring City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring City
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.