Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Timber Lakes has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Timber Lakes; the top destination outside it is Park City (17%, 18 miles). Timber Lakes has 51 jobs, and 464 of its residents work somewhere. For 34% of workers, the job is at home (Utah 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Timber Lakes: the figures worth knowing
Timber Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 51 jobs based in Timber Lakes, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Timber Lakes has about 270 people in it, 60% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Timber Lakes works from home
34% of Timber Lakes workers work from home, against 18% across Utah. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Timber Lakes are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 22 across Utah. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Utah 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 464 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who commutes out of Timber Lakes, and who commutes in
On a workday 464 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 270 people are in Timber Lakes on a workday afternoon, 60% 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.
Commuting from Timber Lakes: about 15 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Timber Lakes workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 212 commuters (the 34% 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.
Where Timber Lakes goes to work
Where Timber Lakes clocks in
17% of workers
16% 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.
Timber Lakes works in goods: 47% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Timber Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 51. 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 Timber Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Timber Lakes
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 Timber Lakes: questions
What is the poverty rate in Timber Lakes?
13.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Timber Lakes?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 34% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Timber Lakes work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Park City (17%, 18 mi), Salt Lake City (16%, 41 mi), Snyderville (8%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Timber Lakes 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 Timber Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Timber Lakes
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.