Work & commute · Woods Cross

Work & commute in Woods Cross, UT

Most working residents leave Woods Cross for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Salt Lake City (31%), Bountiful (7%) and West Valley City (6%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

318 of 5,414 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,096 Woods Cross residents head out of town to work, 318 work right here, and 6,109 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Woods Cross.

5,096live here, work elsewhere

318live and work here

6,109work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Woods Cross goes to work

Salt Lake City6.8 mi away

31%1,662

Bountiful2.9 mi away

7%392

West Valley City13.7 mi away

6%343

Woods Cross (in town)right here

6%318

North Salt Lake1.8 mi away

6%304

South Salt Lake11.6 mi away

3%178

Farmington7.7 mi away

3%151

Layton14.3 mi away

3%137

Murray15.4 mi away

2%119

Ogden24.7 mi away

2%116

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%1,694

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

How far

How far Woods Cross commutes

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

53%

37%

53%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Woods Cross is balanced between jobs and homes

1.19jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Woods Cross are

6,427 jobs are based in Woods Cross. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Woods Cross’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Woods Cross

6,427 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Woods Cross residents hold

5,414 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+88%

Jobs based in Woods Cross, 2013 → 2023: 3,416 → 6,427. 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.