Salt Lake City

City Commute Profile

Salt Lake City, UT

Where Salt Lake City’s 98,852 resident workers go each day — 49.2% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is West Valley City.

UtahLODES 2023 data
75
Commute Score

75 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Salt Lake City at a glance
Employed Residents
98,852
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
10.2mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
49.2%
Share working within the area
Work from home
20.8%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
West Valley City
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Salt Lake City proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Salt Lake City commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Salt Lake City

98,852 commutes, one dot at a time

Salt Lake City

Where 98,852 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Salt Lake City, by worker count.

1Salt Lake City0.0 mi48,678
2West Valley City7.2 mi5,548
3South Salt Lake3.2 mi3,695
4Murray7.1 mi3,631
5Sandy12.4 mi2,898
6Millcreek5.1 mi2,813
7Cottonwood Heights10.2 mi2,299
8Draper16.8 mi2,209

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Salt Lake City.

1Salt Lake City0.0 mi48,678
2West Valley City7.2 mi21,776
3West Jordan11.6 mi16,166
4Millcreek5.1 mi12,150
5Sandy12.4 mi11,267
6Taylorsville7.5 mi9,030
7South Jordan14.5 mi8,914
8Murray7.1 mi7,984

Top industries

The sectors that employ Salt Lake City’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance12.3%
EDEducational Services10.2%
TRTransportation and Warehousing9.7%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services9.6%
MFManufacturing8.8%
PAPublic Administration6.8%
RTRetail Trade6.5%
AFAccommodation and Food Services6.4%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.5%

Salt Lake City city profile

Who lives in Salt Lake City — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
208,007
Median age
32.9yrs
Median household income
$75,090
Median home value
$539,500
Median gross rent
$1,414/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
51.5%
Poverty rate
13.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

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