Work & commute · Tooele

Work & commute in Tooele, UT

Most working residents leave Tooele for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Salt Lake City (20%), West Valley City (7%) and Grantsville (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

3,320 of 19,991 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 16,671 Tooele residents head out of town to work, 3,320 work right here, and 6,000 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tooele.

16,671live here, work elsewhere

3,320live and work here

6,000work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tooele goes to work

Salt Lake City25.8 mi away

20%3,950

Tooele (in town)right here

17%3,320

West Valley City18.6 mi away

7%1,466

Grantsville9.8 mi away

5%955

West Jordan16.7 mi away

3%567

Draper23.5 mi away

2%466

Murray23.4 mi away

2%452

South Salt Lake24.3 mi away

2%445

Sandy24.1 mi away

2%435

Lehi24.5 mi away

2%379

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%7,556

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

How far

How far Tooele commutes

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

24%

41%

27%

24%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tooele is a commuter town

0.47jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Tooele are

9,320 jobs are based in Tooele. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tooele’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Tooele

9,320 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Tooele residents hold

19,991 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+43%

Jobs based in Tooele, 2013 → 2023: 6,527 → 9,320. 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.