Transcontinental Railroad Grade · Photo: An Errant Knight · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Thatcher commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns. There are 118 jobs in Thatcher, against 375 working residents. For jobs and income Thatcher is better than 48% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Thatcher apart on work
A big share show a job far from home
33% 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 ↓
Thatcher workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 22 across Utah. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 375 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Thatcher gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Thatcher’s grade up ($100,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Thatcher’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, Thatcher could be anywhere from C to B+.
Short hops and long hauls from Thatcher
About 33% 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.
From Thatcher, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Thatcher workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 528 commuters (the 14% 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.
In and out of Thatcher on a workday
On a workday 375 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 118 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Thatcher on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
The towns that employ Thatcher’s residents
Where Thatcher clocks in
13% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
57% of the jobs in Thatcher make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Thatcher, 2013 → 2023: 90 → 118. 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 Thatcher’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Thatcher, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 3.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 617 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 11.8% of Thatcher households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Thatcher’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,536th of 4,312: where Thatcher ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 193 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,534 | Nicholson Township PA | 1,245 | $73K | 6.4% | 1.3% | 1% | B− |
| 1,535 | Fishing Creek Township PA | 1,577 | $82K | 7.2% | 6.1% | 1% | B− |
| 1,536 | Thatcher UT | 1,170 | $101K | 7.5% | 2.1% | 0% | B− |
| 1,537 | Magnolia Township IL | 1,014 | $86K | 7.9% | 2.2% | 4% | B− |
| 1,538 | Burrton Township KS | 1,011 | $80K | 9.6% | 6.0% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Thatcher, 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 Thatcher: questions
What is the median household income in Thatcher?
$100,750 (±$20,690) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Thatcher?
7.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Thatcher?
30 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Thatcher work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tremonton (13%, 7 mi), Brigham City (8%, 18 mi), Ogden (6%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Thatcher walkable?
Thatcher is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Thatcher without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Thatcher, from the people who make the trip.
More of Thatcher
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.