Devil's Gate-Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District · Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Uintah are higher than in 82% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 4.9% of residents, next to 8.5% for Utah as a whole. The two grades for Uintah are A for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Hardly any work in Uintah itself; outside it, Ogden draws the most (23%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Uintah: the gist
Uintah and Ogden trade workers both ways
Ogden is the top workplace for Uintah residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Uintah come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Uintah’s working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 24 minutes, longer than the Utah average of 22. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Uintah
57% of Uintah residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 38% of the jobs based in Uintah pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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 547 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Uintah’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Uintah is better than 86% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($108,125, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Uintah’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, Uintah could be anywhere from B to A+.
The towns that employ Uintah’s residents
Where Uintah clocks in
23% of workers
10% 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Uintah
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Uintah workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 641 commuters (the 19% 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.
30% of the jobs in Uintah make or build things
454 jobs are based in Uintah.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Uintah, 2013 → 2023: 162 → 454. 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 Uintah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Uintah
On a workday 542 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 449 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How many miles Uintah commutes
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.
Getting around Uintah: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Uintah is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 793 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 1% 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 1.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 66% 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). 0.0% of Uintah households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Uintah’s commuters take a bus or train.
Uintah places 383rd of 5,877 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 143 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 288 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 297 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 381 | Haverhill Township MN | 1,473 | $161K | 6.4% | 2.5% | <1% | A |
| 382 | Durham Township PA | 1,086 | $116K | 6.9% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| 383 | Uintah UT | 1,402 | $108K | 4.9% | 3.5% | 1% | A |
| 384 | Tri-Lakes IN | 1,025 | $115K | 4.7% | 0.0% | 2% | A |
| 385 | Rice Tracts TX | 1,384 | $133K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Uintah, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Uintah and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Uintah workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uintah | – | A | C− | 24 min | $108,125 |
| South Weber | under 3% | A+ | D | 23 min | $138,600 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Uintah’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Uintah: questions
What is the median household income in Uintah?
$108,125 (±$18,295) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Uintah?
4.9%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Uintah?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Uintah work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ogden (23%, 6 mi), Salt Lake City (10%, 25 mi), South Ogden (6%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Uintah walkable?
Uintah is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Uintah without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Uintah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Uintah
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.