Work & commute · Kearns

Work & commute in Kearns, UT

Most working residents leave Kearns for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Salt Lake City (29%), West Valley City (12%) and West Jordan (7%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

351 of 17,750 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 17,399 Kearns residents head out of town to work, 351 work right here, and 3,262 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Kearns.

17,399live here, work elsewhere

351live and work here

3,262work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Kearns goes to work

Salt Lake City9.6 mi away

29%5,166

West Valley City2.5 mi away

12%2,068

West Jordan3.4 mi away

7%1,212

Murray6.4 mi away

5%856

South Salt Lake6.9 mi away

4%787

Sandy10 mi away

4%744

Draper13.1 mi away

4%689

South Jordan6.8 mi away

4%642

Taylorsville3.2 mi away

3%569

Millcreek9.8 mi away

3%453

Everywhere elseother towns and states

26%4,564

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

How far

How far Kearns commutes

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

70%

21%

70%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Kearns is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Kearns are

3,613 jobs are based in Kearns. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kearns’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Kearns

3,613 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Kearns residents hold

17,750 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+13%

Jobs based in Kearns, 2013 → 2023: 3,197 → 3,613. 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.