Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 4.0Wellington has lower household incomes than 72% of U.S. towns
18.8% of residents live below the poverty line (Utah 8.5%). Wellington grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 3% work in Wellington itself; outside it, Price draws the most (32%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Wellington
Wellington and Price trade workers both ways
Price is the top workplace for Wellington residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Wellington come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
47% 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 ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
47% of the jobs in Wellington are in trade, transport and utilities, against 22% of the jobs its residents hold. 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 745 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Wellington: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Wellington is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Wellington’s grade up ($61,466, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Wellington’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, Wellington could be anywhere from D− to C.
Commuting out of Wellington: the destinations
Where Wellington clocks in
5% of workers
3% 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.
Half of Wellington commutes less than 27 miles
About 47% 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.
The 442 jobs based in Wellington
442 jobs are based in Wellington.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wellington, 2013 → 2023: 345 → 442. 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 Wellington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Wellington, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 725 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 422 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Wellington on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.59 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Wellington: about 16 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wellington workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 590 commuters (the 15% 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 commute in Wellington is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wellington is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wellington near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 693 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.6% of Wellington households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wellington’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Wellington is 5,275th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 163 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 338 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 349 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,273 | Brown City MI | 1,280 | $59K | 18.6% | 9.9% | 12% | D |
| 5,274 | Merriam Woods MO | 2,084 | $52K | 25.2% | 10.8% | <1% | D |
| 5,275 | Wellington UT | 1,606 | $61K | 18.8% | 5.6% | 3% | D |
| 5,276 | Salem WV | 1,570 | $39K | 16.8% | 4.4% | 7% | D |
| 5,277 | Hammond NY | 1,245 | $73K | 28.4% | 6.0% | 12% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Wellington, 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 Wellington: questions
What is the median household income in Wellington?
$61,466 (±$14,309) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wellington?
18.8%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wellington?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wellington work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Price (32%, 6 mi), Salt Lake City (5%, 106 mi), Provo (3%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wellington walkable?
Wellington is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wellington without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wellington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wellington
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.