Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Apollomelos~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domainSundance draws 681 commuters a day, with 12.4 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 40% of workers, next to 18% for Utah as a whole. There are 681 jobs in Sundance; 55 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Sundance itself; outside it, Salt Lake City draws the most (16%, 32 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Sundance
On a workday 55 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 730 people are in Sundance on a workday afternoon, 602% more 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.
Where the people who work in Sundance live
Where Sundance clocks in
16% of workers
13% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sundance, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 681. 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 Sundance’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Sundance
of Sundance workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6 commuters (the 40% 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.
Half of Sundance commutes less than 19 miles
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.
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 Sundance: questions
What is the median household income in Sundance?
$132,857 (±$37,904) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sundance?
8.7%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Sundance work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salt Lake City (16%, 32 mi), Provo (13%, 11 mi), Orem (9%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sundance 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 Sundance, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sundance
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.