Work & commute · Wendover

Work & commute in Wendover, UT

Most working residents leave Wendover for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are West Wendover (42%), Dugway (5%) and Salt Lake City (5%). Half commute less than 3 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

30 of 376 working residents

Typical commute

3 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

9 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 346 Wendover residents head out of town to work, 30 work right here, and 333 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wendover.

346live here, work elsewhere

30live and work here

333work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wendover goes to work

West Wendover, NV3 mi away

42%158

Wendover (in town)right here

8%30

Dugway75 mi away

5%20

Salt Lake City109.9 mi away

5%19

Tooele90.9 mi away

4%15

West Valley City105.5 mi away

3%10

North Salt Lake110.5 mi away

2%7

Ogden112.8 mi away

2%7

West Jordan106.4 mi away

1%5

Midvale112 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%101

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

How far

How far Wendover commutes

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

51%

48%

51%Under 10 mi

0%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

48%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wendover is balanced between jobs and homes

0.97jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Wendover are

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

Jobs based in Wendover

363 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Wendover residents hold

376 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month52%

Over $3,333 a month32%

−31%

Jobs based in Wendover, 2013 → 2023: 523 → 363. 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.