“On the Road Again” Does your county import or export workers?

Not surprisingly, a majority of small Utah counties rank as labor exporters. City workers often prefer living in less-populated areas for aesthetic/quality of life reasons or because housing is less expensive. In addition, finding employment in rural areas may necessitate searching farther afield. Tooele, located on the periphery of the Wasatch While Millard County exports roughly the same number of workers that it imports, another nine counties show up as labor importers. Tourism-dependent Summit, Garfield, and Wayne counties are heavily dependent on imported labor. Duchesne and Emery counties import labor to work in their extractive industries. On the other hand, Washington County’s 2008 labor importation seems more reflective of its explosive short-term building bubble than of a long-term trend—prior to 2007 the county showed a net outflow of workers.Front appears, by far, the largest exporter among a group of 15 worker-exporting counties. TrendLines