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Utah Department of Workforce Services

Executive DirectorKristen Cox

Work orce Research and AnalysisRick Little, Director

Kimberley Bartel, Editor

ContributorsMark Knold

John MathewsJane Gardner Carrie MayneJim Robson

Lecia LangstonLinda Marling Church

Kimberley BartelJohn Krantz

Ryan Kanaley

DesignerPat Swenson

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5 Economy Slowly Starting to Improve Wasatch Front and Statewide

6Extended Unemployment Benefts

in Utah The Outlook

8County Rankings rom the American

Community Survey Five-Year EstimatesEconomic Insight

10Insu fcient

Job OpportunitiesNational News

12 Doubling Up in Recessionary TimesInsider News

14Comparing Davis County

Communities with the ACS SurveyEconomic News

18Working Women in Small Utah Counties

What's Happening

20Your Business Can Play an Important Role

in Utah's Work orce Development DWS News

22Health Care Aides: Helping

Those in NeedOccupations

24 Sources o Income in Eastern Utah The Outskirts

26 Box Elder CountyCounty Highlight

27 Just the Facts...Rate Update

contents

Statewide

Census Data:See page 4 for important information

about this issue!

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Utah Demographics:

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CEN SUS

DATA!

Department of Work force Services

N ew e c onomic , so c ia l, d e mo g r ap hic and ho using inf o f or a ll o f U ta h

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pg. 8



American Community SurveyFirstRelease o 5-year Estimates

For the rst time in almost 10 years, new economic,social, demographic and housing in ormationis available or all communities and counties inUtah. The American Community Survey (ACS) is acontinuous monthly survey o U.S. households thathas been conducted since 2005. With the U.S. CensusBureau having discontinued the use o the long ormin the decennial census in avor o the AmericanCommunity Survey (ACS), we can now look orwardto new data or all communities within the UnitedStates every year.

Within Utah, more than 1,200 households aresurveyed each month as part o the ACS. Five years o data collection are combined or these tabulations sothat a su cient number o households are includedto make reasonably reliable estimates or smallpopulation areascommunities, towns and censustracts. Hundreds o community characteristics areestimated and made available in tables and throughdata pro les.

This rst release o ve-year estimatescoveringthe time period 2005 through 2009providedemographic, social, economic and housingcharacteristics used by business, community, andgovernmental leaders or economic development andplanning purposes. Each year moving orward, thedata rom the oldest year will be dropped, and a newyear o responses added. At the end o this year, thesecond ve-year set o ACS estimates covering 2006through 2010 will be released.

For large population areas, with 65,000 or moreinhabitants, the number o households sampled eachyear is su cient to make characteristic estimateswith one year o data. Communities with at least25,000 inhabitants have the most recent three yearso data combined or estimation. For example, theState o Utah, with 2.8 million people, has new ve,three, and one-year estimates produced each year. Arelatively small community, such as the city o Nephi(population o about 5,500), will have only ve-yearestimates each year.

IMPORTANTIn ormation about this issue:

Hundreds o communitycharacteristics areestimated and madeavailable in tables and

through data pro les.



wasatch front and statewide | by mark knold, chief economist

It has taken awhile,but the initial stepso a sel -sustainingeconomic recovery maybe taking hold. This isa national economicview, and since Utahseconomy seems to becurrently tied to thenational economic per-

ormance, this ndingshould also apply toUtah. A sel -sustainingeconomic recovery isone characterized with both rising employ-ment and consumer spending.

Even with this improvement in theeconomy, the unemployment rate maynot show much improvement as wemove through 2011. Utahs year-over-

year employment growth rate is currentlyaround 1.0 percent, and is expected to risethroughout 2011 to around 2.0 percentby years end. Un ortunately, that is notenough growth to make much, i any, denton the states unemployment rate.

Utah has lost around 85,000 jobs duringthis recession. Unemployed have risen

rom roughly 45,000 to 102,000, produc-ing an unemployment rate around 7.4

percent. I marginallyattached (occasionallylooking) and discour-aged unemployed werealso included, the un-employed would riseto around 130,000, andthe rate to roughly 9.2percent. A 2.0 employ-ment growth rate byyears end would meana gain o around 22,000o the 85,000 lost jobs.Job growth will lower

the ranks o the currently unemployed, butit will also encourage some o the discour-aged workers who le t the labor market tostart looking or work again, thus possiblykeeping the volume o those unemployedin the o cial unemployment rate calcula-tion unchanged. In other words, the pro-

jected job growth will move people o unemployment, but discouraged workersstarting to look or work again may keepthe unemployment rate rom alling verymuch.

Nearly all industries are expected toexperience job growth in 2011, evenconstruction and manu acturing. The onlyindustry not expected to see growth is

nancial activities.

Economy SlowlyStarting to Improve

Most industries are expected to experience job growth this year.



he outlook | by mark knold, chief economist

The recent recession has pushedUtahs unemployment rate toits highest level in over 25 years,meaning many people are ling orunemployment insurance bene ts.And with the depth and duration o therecessions consequences lingeringwith virtually no job creation to re-employ workersmany people haveexhausted their regular state-suppliedunemployment bene ts and havemoved onto the ederally- undedextended unemployment bene ts.

This movement onto extended ben-e ts blossomed around April 2009.The accompanying map shows wherethe extent o this activity has oc-curred in Utah, by Census tracts, andis quanti ed between April 2009 andOctober 2010. Across that time rame,around 53,800 unemployed led oran extended unemployment bene t.

Geographic areas emerge where un-employment activities and durationare more prevalent. These include thewest and southwest sides o Salt LakeCounty, northern and western UtahCounty, and eastern Tooele County.O the Wasatch Front, hot spots oc-cur in two Census tracts in Washing-ton County, and one in the energypatch o Uintah County.

When isolating the Salt Lake-Utah-Tooele County hot spots, they areareas that within the past 15 yearswere underdeveloped but have nowtransitioned into populated newhome areas. For example, in northernUtah County, 15 years ago not onlywere Saratoga Springs and EagleMountain not developed, they didntexist as towns. Now they are townso size. Many who have settled thereare young, rst-time home buyersseeking availability and a ordability.

I one incorporates the normalpattern observed during recessionarylayo s onto thisyounger, lesstenured workers are usually the

rst to be laid o then the layo activities should show up more inthese younger communities. This tsthe pattern seen rom the Salt Lake,Utah, and Tooele county pro les onthe map.

In Washington County, the Censustracts east o I-15 that include thecities o Washington and Hurricanealso have high quantities o extendedbene t lers. Washington Countyhas been hit hard by this recession.Having experienced the largest hous-ing bubble in the state, WashingtonCounty began this recession rst and

has been mired in it the longest. Tohave as many extended bene t lers

rom this area match the counts inthe more heavily populated WasatchFront speaks loudly toward the dis-proportionate amount o recession-ary impact this county is enduring.Again, construction workers are themost prominent lers in those tracts.

As or Uintah County, energy indus-try layo s are the primary reason

or high unemployment claims. Theenergy price rise o 2007 and 2008spurred energy-industry employ-ment to its highest levels ever in thatcounty.

When energy prices collapsed in2009, activity slowed and layo s ol-lowed. It is only recently that activityhas begun to resume, but in the in-terim, many o these laid o workerswere out o jobs long enough to reach

into the extended unemploymentbene ts.

Energy prices have rebounded andemployment gains are resulting, sounemployment bene ciaries are get-ting re-employed. But the construc-tion industry is still fat, with notmuch activity to move its idled labor

orce onto payrolls.

in Utah Unemployment BeneftsExtended



301 to 400

401 to 600

Census tracts

EXTENDED

CLAIMS201 to 300

101 to 200

2 to 100

Workers fling orextended unemploymentbenefts:

70% are male

65% are less than age 45

The constructionindustryadded more unemployedworkers than any otherindustry, ollowed by

administrative services (telemarketing andemployment supply agencies)and then manufacturing andretail trade

Extended Unemployment Benefts

Initial Claims by Census TractApril 2009 October 2010

Source: Utah Department of Workforce Services.

White space assumes no initial claims



economic insight | by lecia parks langston, economist

Perhaps youve seen the Nerd Venn Diagram that has beenfoating around the blogosphere lately. It de nes nerds,geeks, dweebs, dorks based on three characteristicssocial ineptitude, intelligence, and obsession. Now, Ivealways considered mysel a data geek and according to thediagram that means Im intelligent and obsessive. I dontknow about the intelligence part, but when it comes to

data, Im certainly obsessive. I I had my way, Id get to llthis entire publication with graphs and insights about the Census

Bureaus recently released ve-year estimates rom the AmericanCommunity Survey.

Theres so much great in ormation available, particularly i yourcounty is small, and you havent seen any demographic data

since the 2000 Census. But, Ive only got a ew pages to ll.So, Im providing some county-ranking tidbits that I hope willstimulate you to do a little obsessive data-delving o your own.This data refects estimates or 2005-2009.

Kane County has the oldest median age (44 years); UtahCounty the youngest (23 years).

Beaver County maintains the highest share o population overthe age o 85 (3 percent); Daggett County the lowest (0.6 per-cent).

Rich County shows the top percentage o population in theWhite/Not Hispanic or Latino category (97 percent); SanJuan County, with its high share o Native Americans, has thelowest--only 39 percent.

On average, Wayne County workers have the shortest commutetime (11 minutes); Tooele County workers, the longest (29minutes).

Utah County households are the largest (average o 3.8 in-dividuals); Daggett County households are the smallest (2.1individuals).

Gar eld County demonstrates the lowest percentage o never-married men over the age o 15 (10 percent); Utah County, thehighest (38 percent).

County Rankings from theAmerican Community Survey Five-Year Estimates:

enough to excite anydata geek!

Do some obsessivedata-delving of

your own!


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On the other hand, Piute County exhibits the low-est percentage o never-married women over theage o 15 (8 percent); Cache County, the highest

(34 percent). Washington County has the highest percentage o

homes built since 2005 (9 percent); Emery County,the lowest (0.3 percent).

Piute County shows the highest percentage o vet-erans in the population (16 percent); Utah Countythe smallest (6 percent).

In Gar eld County, over 60 percent o marriedcouples are both in the labor orce, the highest ratein the state. In Piute County, both spouses are inthe labor market only 37 percent o the time.

Morgan County ranks number one or the per-centage o households that are married couple

amilies (77 percent) while only 48 percent o Grand County households include a marriedcouple.

Morgan County also tops the list or the percent-age o workers commuting outside o their countyo residence or work60 percent cross countylines or employment. On the other end o thespectrum, less than 5 percent o Grand Countyemployees leave the county or work.

With more than 48 percent o adults over 25with at least a Bachelors degree, Summit Countyresidents are the best educated in Utah. BeaverCounty residents have the lowest percentage o adults with a Bachelors degreeless than 12percent.

To access the American Community Survey ve-yearestimates or your county, go to: http:// act nder.census.gov and click on get data under the American Community Survey heading.

Percent of Households With One or More

Under 18 Years2005-2009

MorganTooele

JuabDavisUtah

Box ElderDuchesneWasatchSan Juan

UintahIron

CacheWeber

Salt LakeSevier

SummitEmery

MillardSanpeteGar eldBeaver

WashingtonCarbonWayneGrand

RichKanePiute

Daggett10% 20% 30% 40% 50

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2005-2009.
http://factfinder.census.gov/http://factfinder.census.gov/http://factfinder.census.gov/



national news | by jim robson, economist

As 2010 came to an end, there were a number o signsthat U.S. economic activity continued to slowlyimprove. Economic expansion has been o ciallyunderway since June 2009, with moderate increases inthe production o goods and services. Lately, consumercon dence and retail purchases are increasing, and evensome labor market indicators are nally showing signs o improvement.

The modest economic growth during 2010 was primarily

driven by stimulus, both scal policy engineered byCongress and the president and monetary policyconducted by the Federal Reserve Bank. These policieshave been unprecedented, varied, and large. Themainstream economic view or 2011 is that the U.S.economy is success ully transitioning to a sel -sustainingrecovery driven by private domestic consumption andbusiness demand.

While many economic indicators have improved, theseverity o the recession during 2008 and 2009 willhave long lasting e ects. Labor market conditions areimproving but it will likely take several years to bringunemployment rates down to more healthy levels thatare around six percent.

One example o the recent positive labor market news isprovided by job openings. Prior to the recession in 2007,U.S. job openings averaged a little above 4.5 million permonth. When the recession ended in July 2009 they had

allen to a low o 2.4 million per month. Through the endo 2010 they have been trending up, reaching about 3.3million job openings, clearly an improvement but stillbelow pre-recession levels.

By examining job openings relative to the number o unemployed it becomes clear that we need much more

improvement. During 2007, unemployment averagedabout 7 million persons per month. In 2010, U.S.unemployment averaged 14.8 million. In 2007, therewere 1.5 unemployed persons per job opening. At theend o 2009, there were about six persons unemployedper job opening. During 2010 this ratio has graduallyimproved, ending the year at about 4.5 unemployed oreach job opening. De nite improvement, but still a longway to go be ore reaching more normal levels where thereare reasonably good job opportunities or those seekingemployment.

Insu fcientJob Opportunities

Conditions are improving,

but there is still a long way togo be ore reaching normalemployment levels.


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Number oUnemployed

Persons per JobOpening

(Seasonally Adjusted)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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4

5

6

7

Jan-06 Jul-06 Jan-07 Jul-07 Jan-08 Jul-08 Jan-09 Jul-09 Jan-10 Jul-10

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6,000

Jan-06 Jul-06 Jan-07 Jul-07 Jan-08 Jul-08 Jan-09 Jul-09 Jan-10 Jul-10

U.S. JobOpenings by

Month(in thousands)

Recession

Though the openings arerising, they are still below

pre-recession levels.

During 2010 this ratiogradually improved,

ending the year at about4.5 unemployed or each

job opening.



nsider news | by jim robson, economist

For Utah, a ull year o ACSresponses provides a large

enough sample to make the ullrange o data estimates. With veyears o data or Utah, changes overtime provide insights into how thestate is trans ormed by events.

The Great Recession o 2008/2009 isone such event. In Utah, the housingboom and economic growth peakedin 2006. The economy was slowingduring 2007, with the national(and Utah) recession beginning in

December 2007. Serious nancialsystem di culties during 2008 in the

U.S. and around the world came to ahead in August and September 2008with ull-blown nancial crises hittingthe Utah, U.S. and world economies.Signi cant economic contractionoccurred in most industries or thenext year.

The large increases in unemployedand underemployed, with theresulting declines in incomes and jobopportunities or many individuals

and amilies, has been mani est inloan de aults, bankruptcies, and

housing oreclosures. Nationally,a noticeable e ect o householdsdoubling up has been observed.

Doubling up is where relatives andriends have moved in together

as their only viable alternative tohomelessness. In September 2010,the Census Bureau reported that romthe rst quarter o 2008 to the rstquarter o 2010 there has been an11.6 percent increase in multi- amily

in Recessionary Times

Doubling UpDoubling Up


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households nationally. During thissame period the total number o

households in the U.S. increased byjust 0.6 percent. A related statisticwas a large increase in older childrenliving with their parents. From 2008to 2010 the number o 25 to 34year olds living with their parentsincreased by 8.4 percent ( rom 5.1million to 5.5 million).

Utah data rom the ACS surveyindicates that more people movedin together to share a household

as a result o the recession. Duringthe relative economic prosperity

rom 2000 to 2006, the numbero Utah households increased by2.4 percent per year, while personsin households increase by a lowergrowth rate o 2.0 percent. Thus,

rom 2000 to 2006 the Utah averagehousehold size declined rom 3.13to 3.08 persons per household. Withthe economic slow down in 2007and recession years o 2008/2009 thenumber o Utah households grew 2.2percent per year rom 2006 to 2009,

while persons in households grew by3.0 percent per year. There ore the

average Utah household size duringthis period increased rom 3.08 to3.17 persons per household. In the

uture, as the economy strengthens,job opportunities become moreplenti ul, and unemploymentdeclines, there should be a reverseo this increase o doubling up.Demand above normal populationgrowth should spur household

ormation or both housing rentalsand ownership.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census and AmericanCommunity Survey (ACS).

3.13

3.08

3.11

3.15

3.17

2000Census

2006ACS

2007ACS

2008ACS

2009ACS

2.4% 2.2%2.0%

3.0%

Households Persons in Households

2000 Census to 2006 ACS

2006 ACS to 2009 ACS

Utah Average AnnualPercent Change:

2000 to 2006 compared with 2006 to 2009

Utah Average HouseholdSize



economic news | by john mathews, economist

ComparingDavis County Communitieswith the ACS Survey

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American

Community Survey, 2005-2009.

Median Household IncomeDavis County Communities 2005-2009

46,528

47,639

61,713

63,709

64,400

64,811

68,533

68,921

76,111

77,500

78,395

78,459

78,798

80,452

10

Clear eld

Sunset

Layton

Bountiful

Clinton

Woods Cross

North Salt Lake

West Point

West Bountiful

South Weber

Kaysville

Syracuse

Farmington

Centerville

Fruit Heights

The causeway between Antelope Island State Park and Davis County. The foreground is the State Park and the

background is a view of the Wasatch Mountains.

11.7

18.0

21.4

21.4

25.5

27.6

30.1

31.4

31.9

36.1

38.1

39.9

42.2

43.7

52.4

Sunset

Clear eld

Clinton

West Bountiful

West Point

Woods Cross

Syracuse

South Weber

Layton

North Salt Lake

Bountiful

Centerville

Kaysville

Farmington

Fruit Heights

Percent of Persons 25 Years Old and OlderWith a Bachelor's Degree or Higher

Davis County Communities 2005-2009


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To demonstrate the type o data availableby community I have selected just a ewdata elements to describe the communi-ties in Davis County. The American FactFinderis the source o the data. Within this source arecommunity data pro les that consist o our cat-egories o in ormation: social, economic, hous-ing and demographic. Hundreds o data pointsare available through these data pro les. We are

going to look at just three in graph but the linkbelow will take you the Census site to view oth-ers o the 15 communities in Davis County.

Educational AttainmentThe rst topic or discussion is educationalattainment. This is the percentage o thepopulation 25 years old and older that haveattained a bachelors degree or higher. Thegraph shows that Fruit Heights has the highestpercentage o college grads with over hal holding a diploma. Thats signi cantly higherthan the state average o 28.7 percent. Sunsethas the lowest proportion with 11.7 percentholding a bachelors degree or higher. In Layton,the largest city in Davis County, 31.7 percent o the population 25 years or over has a degree.

IncomeMedian household income among thecommunities in Davis County shows a wide

range. Households in Fruit Heights had thehighest median income with $105,170, whichwas 30 percent higher than the next highestcommunityCenterville ($80,452). Householdsin Fruit Heights had more than double the levelo median income than those in Clear eld($46,528).

Median AgeUtahs median age (2005-2009 average) was28.5 years, as was Layton Citys median age.The di erence in age across the 15 communitiesspanned 10 years. Bounti ul was the oldest at35.2 years and Clear eld was the youngest witha median age o 25.9 years.

These are just examples o the hundreds o dataelements available or the communities in Utah,and across the nation. I you want to knowabout household size, commuting time, drivingto work alone in the car, per capita income,

mortgage and housing size, population by age,race, gender, ethnicity, and much more, go tothe ACS American FactFinder site below andjust play. Much o the census-sourced data inthe Department o Work orce Services websiteoriginates rom the American CommunitySurvey. Go look.

http://fact nder.census.gov/

Fruit Heights has the mostcollege grads and the

highest median income inthe state. Clear eld hasthe youngest population inUtah, with a median age of 25.9 years.

Median Age of the Population inDavis County Communities 2005-2009

25.9

26.5

26.6

26.9

27.5

27.6

27.6

28.2

28.5

29.1

30.4

31.7

32.1

33.2

35.2

Clear eld

Syracuse

Clinton

West Point

Farmington

Kaysville

Woods Cross

North Salt Lake

Layton

West Bountiful

South Weber

Centerville

Sunset

Fruit Heights

Bountiful
http://factfinder.census.gov/http://factfinder.census.gov/



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TOP fIve counties forpercent of men that havenever been married:

1. Utah (38.1 percent)2. San Juan (37.8 percent)

3. Cache (37.6 percent)

4. Salt Lake (32.9 percent)

5. Grand (32.2 percent)

Rich County has the lowest percent-age (0.7 percent) of people who areforeign born.

Beaver County has the highest per-centage of people over the age of 85.

The longest work commute time occursin Tooele County (28.5 minutes) and 20percent carpool, 68.6 percent travel bycar, truck, van and 2 percent take pub-lic transportation.

Residents in Wayne County only com-mute 11.1 minutes to work and 0.7%take public transportation, 68.8 percent

travel by car, truck, van, and 7.6 per-cent carpool.

Summit County has thehighest percentage o people 25 and over whohave completed both anadvanced degree (17.5percent) and who havecompleted a bachelorsdegree (48.2 percent).

Counties with a me-dian household incomeabove $60,000: Sum-mit ($83,380), Morgan($70,043), Davis ($65,892),Wasatch ($62,030), andTooele ($60,236).

Iron County has the low-est percentage o owneroccupied housing units(62.5 percent) and MorganCounty has the highest(89.4 percent).

fAcTs from the 2005-2009 AmericanCommunity Survey 5-Year Estimates forCounties in Utah

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what's happening | by carrie mayne, supervising economist

The Census Bureaus ve-year es-timates or the American Com-munity Survey present an op-portunity to more closely understandthe demographic and labor marketcharacteristics across the UnitedStates. Previous releases o ACS datahave only covered the counties withlarger populations, but with ve yearso data now collected, robust observa-tions o smaller rural populations arenow at our ngertips. (For a list o the19 Utah counties newly added to theACS data collection, please see list.)

One particular sub-population o these rural counties that to dateweve known little about (at leastsince the 2000 Census) is working

women. There are both similaritiesand notable di erences when relatingthe economies o rural counties to thestatewide average, so its worthwhileto investigate the comparisons or the

emale labor orce.

According to the ve-year ACSestimates, the labor orce participationrate or 16 to 65 year old women inUtah is just under 69 percent. O the 19 small Utah counties observedhere, only two have a higher rate o women working: Wayne and Gar eld.San Juan exhibits the lowest rate atjust under 53 percent. The averagelabor orce participation rate or thiscollection o counties is 60.5 percent.

Earnings tell an interesting story aswell. O the ull-time wage earners,only in our o the 19 counties dowomen have a higher emale-to-maleearnings ratio than the statewide

average. Women in Utah earnapproximately 70 percent o theirmale counterparts earnings level; onlythe working women in Beaver, Grand,Wayne, and Kane counties are better.Uintah Countys working women arethe worst o this group with less than50 cents to the male dollar, whileKane county women come out on topwith an earnings ratio just under 90percent.

The most common occupations heldby the working women in Utah are:o ce and administrative support oc-cupations (26.4 percent), sales andrelated occupations (12.6 percent),and education, training, and libraryoccupations (9.8 percent). Does this

pattern hold true or the women o smaller counties? The answer turnsout to be yes.

While there are certainly di erenc-es in the economic make-up o therural areas o Utah as comparedto the Wasatch Front, the datashows that women tend togravitate toward these typeso occupations. In act, or allbut two counties (Piute andRich), o ce and administra-tive support occupations ex-hibited signi cantly higherpercentages o the total e-male employment.

Find out more about the de-mographic and economiccharacteristics o womenin Utahs rural counties atthe ollowing link: http://

actfnder.census.gov

working wom nin sm ll U h coun i COUNTIES

With New Data Underthe Five-Year ACS Estimates:

Beaver

Carbon

Daggett

DuchesneEmery

Gar eld

Grand

Iron

Juab

Kane

Millard

Piute

Rich

San JuanSanpete

Sevier

Uintah

Wasatch

Wayne
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GARFIELD

WAYNE

STATEWIDE

GRAND

WASATCH

KANE

MILLARD

RICH

SEVIER

BEAVERIRON

UINTAH

CARBON

DUCHESNE

EMERY

PIUTE

JUAB

SANPETE

DAGGETT

SAN JUAN 52.8%

55.4%

55.5%

55.5%

56.8%

57.3%

58.0%

58.1%

58.7%

59.8%59.9%

60.1%

60.4%

61.9%

64.4%

66.0%

66.4%

68.8%

70.4%

72.1%

KANE

WAYNE

GRAND

BEAVER

STATEWIDE

PIUTE

SAN JUAN

IRON

MILLARD

SEVIER

JUAB

WASATCH

CARBON

DUCHESNE

SANPETE

DAGGETT

GARFIELD

RICH

EMERY

UINTAH 49.1%

54.0%

55.3%

55.5%

57.6%

57.7%

58.6%

59.7%

61.1%

61.7%

62.3%

65.7%

66.8%

66.9%

67.0%

69.6%

72.7%

82.6%

84.9%

89.6%

F m l L bor ForP r i ip ion R

F m l Full-tim w g e rninga P r n of M l

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.



All Utah companies and organizations areinvited to be a part o Utahs one-stop shop oronline career in ormation. Students and jobseekers use UtahFutures.org to research and organizetheir training, education, and career in ormation inone place. The education and career port olio usersbuild on UtahFutures.org travels with them as theyenter the work orce and advance in their careers.

UtahFutures.org provides a unique opportunity orUtah companies to be pro led on the screen alongside the occupational in ormation viewed by job

seekers and students.The system provides clear in ormation about jobrequirements, earning power and job availability

or hundreds o occupations. Current employmentand labor market in ormation rom the Departmento Work orce Services and Bureau o Labor Statisticshelps connect job seekers with current job openings,as well as provides trend and outlook data or careerso the uture.

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occupations | by linda marling church, research analyst


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he outskirts | by john krantz, economist

U sing the new 5-year ACS data, this article ocus-es on the sources o income or Eastern Utah,where Eastern Utah re ers to Carbon, Daggett,Duchesne, Emery, Grand, San Juan, and Uintah counties.By looking at the percentages o households receivingparticular types o income, we can develop a better pic-ture o the counties in Eastern Utah.

The ACS identi es ve main types o cash income sources:earnings, Social Security, retirement, SupplementalSecurity Income, and cash public assistance. Among these

ve sources, earnings are received by a higher percentageo households than any other source o income and theyorm the largest part o total household income. This

makes sense because earnings are the wages, salaries, andsel -employment income received by workers. Statewide,86 percent o all households received earnings. In EasternUtah, the percentages o households receiving income asearnings are all lower than or equal to the state average,ranging rom a low o 69 percent in Daggett County to ahigh o 86 percent in Uintah County.

While earnings tells us how many households haveindividuals actively participating in the labor market,Social Security and retirement income can tell ussomething about the percentage o households that haveretirees. Interestingly, the percentages o householdsreceiving Social Security or all o the counties o Eastern Utah are higher than the state average. Anothernoteworthy act is that i we rank households in Eastern

Utah by the percentage receiving Social Security and bythe percentage receiving retirement income, the order

rom high to low is the same or the rst ve counties.This suggests that these counties have older populationsand the ACS data supports this suggestion.Daggett County has the third-highestpercentage o people 65 or older at 17.6percent while Carbon County rankseighth with 13.7 percent.

Supplemental Security Income provides

assistance to elderly and disabled individu-als with very low incomes. We might expectcounties with higher percentages o disabled individuals to have high-er percentages o householdsreceiving Supplemental Secu-rity Income. Un ortunately,there are currently no estimates

or the percentage o disabledindividuals in the countieso Eastern Utah, so wecannot veri y thisclaim.

Sources of Income in

Eastern Utah



The last income source considered here is cash public assistance. Thisconsists o cash grants rom government agencies to individualswho typically have very little or no income. The most well-knowngovernment program o this type is Temporary Assistance or Needy

Families (TANF).

On average, only 1.8 percent o households in the State o Utah receivecash public assistance. However, the

percentages o households receiving cashpublic assistance in San Juan and Grand

counties are more than twice the statewideaverage. These relatively high percentagescan be explained in terms o the poverty rate.San Juan County has the highest poverty rate

among Utahs counties and Grand Countys rateranks as the th highest. As we would expect, the

greater the percentage o individuals in poverty,the greater the percentage o individuals

receiving government cash trans ers. Incontrast, Daggett County has the ourthlowest poverty rate in the state, so itis believable that no one in the survey

reported receiving cash public assistance.

The American Community Survey is a veri-table treasure trove o in ormation. To learn more

about your county, the link below takes you to the AmericanFactFinder page o the U.S. Census Bureaus website, whichhas a link to the American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for 2005-2009.

Percent of HouseholdsReceiving Cash Public

Assistance

San Juan

Grand

C a rb o n

Du c he s ne

Uintah

State of Utah

Emery

Daggett

0%

1.2%

1.8%1.8%

2.7%

3.1%

3.9%

4.8%

12.3%13.7%

15.8%16.4%

18.6%

22.5%22.9%

35.2%

Da g g e t t

Carbon

Eme ry

G ra nd

Duchesne

Uintah

San Juan

State of Utah

Percent of HouseholdsReceiving Retirement Income

21.5%22.4%

24.2%26.3%

27.3%

29.8%

33.1%

43.6%

Da g g e t t

Carbon

Eme ry

G ra nd

Duchesne

Uintah

San Juan

State of Utah

Percent of HouseholdsReceiving Social Security

http://fact nder.census.gov/

A look at incomesources portrays ademographic pictureof the seven counties

which compriseEastern Utah.
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county highlight | by ryan kanaley, research intern

In the northwest corner o the Beehive state residesa quiet county named a ter its most abundant tree:the box elder. Un ortunately Box Elder County isconsidered economically distressed. In the all o 2010,almost one in ten (9.4 percent) o the Box Elder work orce

was unemployed. This increase in unemployment ismostly attributable to the decrease o manu acturing jobs,Box Elders primary industry. I Box Elders economy is tomaintain and prosper, industrial diversity may be a key.Otherwise, Box Elders level o joblessness will likely growover the next ew years.

Urban pressure continues to spread northward rom themetropolitan Wasatch Front. This may cause the agricultureindustry, which occupies 40 percent o Box Elders land, tomorph into a more metropolitan county in the uture. Toaid the local economy, Box Elder County has opened theBox Elder Business Center with the assistance o ederal

unds, which was created to develop existing businessesand attract new ones to the area.

Box ElderCounty

Box Elder CountyEmployment

16,000

16,500

17,000

17,500

18,000

18,500

19,000

19,500

20,000

20,500

21,000

00 01 02 0399 04 0605 08 09 1007

Source: Utah Department of Workforce Services.

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Beaver 8.5 %Box Elder 9.7 %Cache 5.8 %Carbon 8.3 %Daggett 7.1 %

Davis 6.9 %Duchesne 7.5 %Emery 7.6 %Gar eld 9.7 %

Grand 10.7 %Iron 9.1 %Juab 10.8 %Kane 8.2 %Millard 6.5 %Morgan 7.1 %

Piute 7.2 %Rich 6.0 %Salt Lake 7.3 %San Juan 13.5 %Sanpete 9.5 %

Sevier 8.3 %Summit 7.5 %Tooele 8.2 %Uintah 6.6 %Utah 7.7 %

Wasatch 8.9 %Washington 10.2 %Wayne 9.3 %Weber 8.5 %

December 2010Seasonally AdjustedUnemployment Rates

December 2010Unemployment Rates

Changes From LastYear

Utah Unemployment Rate 7.5 % Up 0.9 points

U.S. Unemployment Rate 9.4 % Down 0.5 points

Utah Non arm Jobs (000s) 1,205.2 Up 1.3 %U.S. Non arm Jobs (000s) 131,062.0 Up 0.7 %

December 2010 ConsumerPrice Index RatesU.S. Consumer Price Index 219.2 Up 1.5%U.S. Producer Price Index 183.0 Up 4.0%

Source: Utah Department of Workforce Services

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