Photo: Daver1956 · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Vernon works elsewhere
For 8% of workers, the job is at home, where Utah as a whole has 18%. Employers in Vernon report 2 jobs; 93 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Vernon for work; outside it, Salt Lake City is the main destination (18%, 54 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Vernon
On a workday 93 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Vernon on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 out of Vernon: the destinations
Where Vernon clocks in
18% 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.
Most jobs in Vernon are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vernon, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 2. 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 Vernon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Vernon: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vernon workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 97 commuters (the 8% 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 distance from Vernon to work
About 41% 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 Vernon: questions
What is the median household income in Vernon?
$58,917 (±$9,830) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vernon?
9.3%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vernon?
35 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vernon work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salt Lake City (18%, 54 mi), Tooele (16%, 32 mi), West Valley City (9%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Vernon 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 Vernon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vernon
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.