Photo: Ntsimp · Public domainVineyard has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
For jobs and income Vineyard is better than 75% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (A−). 2,751 jobs are based in Vineyard; 6,255 of its residents have a job. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 4.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 7.6 in Provo.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Vineyard at work: what stands out
Jobs in Vineyard have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Vineyard went from 336 in 2013 to 2,751 in 2023, +719%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
50% of the jobs based in Vineyard are held by workers 29 or younger, against 39% of Vineyard’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Vineyard and Orem trade workers both ways
Orem is the top workplace for Vineyard residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Vineyard come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Vineyard’s grade
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (8.9%, U.S. 11.9%). It also does well on family income and the poverty rate.
16% of Vineyard’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (18% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 8.9%, against 10.1% for all residents. Unemployment (2.5%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($103,662), since student households pull the household median down ($103,380).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Vineyard could be anywhere from B to A.
What Vineyard’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vineyard, 2013 → 2023: 336 → 2,751. 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 Vineyard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
18% of working residents work in Orem
Where Vineyard clocks in
18% of workers
18% 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.
How a workday changes Vineyard
On a workday 6,096 residents head out to work, 159 work right here, and 2,592 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Vineyard 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.
From Vineyard, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vineyard workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,967 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Vineyard
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Vineyard
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% of 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 8,553 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 83% 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). 5.0% of Vineyard households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Vineyard’s commuters take a bus or train.
Vineyard is 872nd of 2,220 U.S. towns of 11,000 to 22,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | West Point UT | 13,058 | $121K | 1.6% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Bluffdale UT | 19,506 | $130K | 3.1% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Centerville UT | 16,480 | $123K | 3.1% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 870 | Greene Township PA | 18,721 | $88K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 8% | A− |
| 871 | Valley Center CA | 11,119 | $132K | 6.7% | 3.7% | 7% | A− |
| 872 | Vineyard UT | 16,092 | $103K | 10.1% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| 873 | Whitman MA | 15,526 | $109K | 7.9% | 5.2% | 6% | A− |
| 874 | Oxon Hill MD | 17,893 | $93K | 6.2% | 5.9% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,220 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Vineyard, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
The towns next door employ 23% of Vineyard
The biggest share goes to Orem (18%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Vineyard’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.
- Students. 16% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Vineyard: questions
What is the median household income in Vineyard?
$103,380 (±$8,083) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vineyard?
10.1% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 8.9%. Utah: 8.5%.
How long is the commute from Vineyard?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vineyard work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orem (18%, 3 mi), Provo (18%, 7 mi), Lehi (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vineyard walkable?
Vineyard is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vineyard without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vineyard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vineyard
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.