Work & commute · Santaquin

Work & commute in Santaquin, UT

Most working residents leave Santaquin for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Provo (11%), Payson (10%) and Spanish Fork (8%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

562 of 8,175 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,613 Santaquin residents head out of town to work, 562 work right here, and 857 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santaquin.

7,613live here, work elsewhere

562live and work here

857work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santaquin goes to work

Provo20.6 mi away

11%932

Payson5.4 mi away

10%777

Spanish Fork12.7 mi away

8%636

Salt Lake City56.1 mi away

7%584

Santaquin (in town)right here

7%562

Orem23.2 mi away

6%495

Springville16.3 mi away

6%491

Lehi31.2 mi away

4%331

American Fork28.2 mi away

3%208

Draper36.6 mi away

2%196

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%2,963

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

How far

How far Santaquin commutes

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

21%

35%

27%

18%

21%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santaquin is a commuter town

0.17jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Santaquin are

1,419 jobs are based in Santaquin. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Santaquin’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Santaquin

1,419 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less42%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Santaquin residents hold

8,175 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+79%

Jobs based in Santaquin, 2013 → 2023: 792 → 1,419. 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.