Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 4.0Bovill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
A typical one-way commute lasts 43 minutes, where Idaho has 22 and the U.S. 26. 9 jobs are based in Bovill, against 72 working residents. Only 1% work in Bovill itself; outside it, Moscow draws the most (21%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bovill by day and by night
On a workday 71 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Bovill on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Bovill work
Where Bovill clocks in
Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Making and building: 44% of jobs based in Bovill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bovill, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 9. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bovill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Bovill: about 43 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bovill workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 27 commuters (the 18% who work from home are left out). Across Idaho: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many miles Bovill commutes
About 17% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bovill: questions
What is the median household income in Bovill?
$38,750 (±$21,042) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bovill?
27.1%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bovill?
43 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bovill work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Moscow (21%, 30 mi), Deary (15%, 9 mi), Pullman (11%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bovill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bovill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bovill
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.