About Woods Cross

Woods Cross is a somewhat small town located in the state of Utah. With a population of 9,795 people and just one neighborhood, Woods Cross is the 41st largest community in Utah.

Unlike some towns , Woods Cross isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Woods Cross are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Woods Cross is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woods Cross who work in office and administrative support jobs (21.77%), sales jobs (13.20%), and management occupations (6.87%).

Also of interest is that Woods Cross has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One of the benefits of Woods Cross is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.82 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Woods Cross is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Woods Cross isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.81% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Woods Cross does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Woods Cross Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Woods Cross who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 24.04% of adults in Woods Cross have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Woods Cross in 2000 was $17,879, which is upper middle income relative to Utah, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $71,516 for a family of four. However, Woods Cross contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Woods Cross home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Woods Cross is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Woods Cross include English, German, Danish, European, Scottish, Swedish, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Woods Cross is English. Some people also speak Spanish.