Work & commute · Helper

Work & commute in Helper, UT

Most working residents leave Helper for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Price (30%), Salt Lake City (6%) and Wellington (3%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

26 of 1,036 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,010 Helper residents head out of town to work, 26 work right here, and 239 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Helper.

1,010live here, work elsewhere

26live and work here

239work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Helper goes to work

Price6.7 mi away

30%312

Salt Lake City93.8 mi away

6%67

Wellington12.5 mi away

3%30

Provo56.6 mi away

3%30

Helper (in town)right here

3%26

Draper77 mi away

2%20

West Wood5.9 mi away

2%18

Orem61.2 mi away

2%17

Springville51.9 mi away

1%14

West Valley City92 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%488

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Helper commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

42%

45%

42%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

45%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Helper is a commuter town

0.26jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.26 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Helper are

265 jobs are based in Helper. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Helper’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Helper

265 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Helper residents hold

1,036 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−59%

Jobs based in Helper, 2013 → 2023: 648 → 265. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.