Work means Pocatello for about half of Chubbuck’s working residents
Measured by household income, Chubbuck is ahead of 60% of U.S. towns. Chubbuck grades B for jobs and income and B for walkability. The trip to work takes 17 minutes on average, where Idaho has 22 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Chubbuck and work: the main findings
Young people hold many of the jobs here
41% of the jobs based in Chubbuck are held by workers 29 or younger, against 27% of Chubbuck’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Most Chubbuck residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Chubbuck are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 22 across Idaho. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Idaho worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What’s behind Chubbuck’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Chubbuck is better than 62% of U.S. towns, #16 of 59 in Idaho. The poverty rate holds Chubbuck’s grade up (6.0%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Chubbuck could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The places Chubbuck commutes to
Where Chubbuck clocks in
9% of workers
3% of workersLines 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.
The kinds of work in Chubbuck
5,239 jobs are based in Chubbuck.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chubbuck, 2013 → 2023: 4,131 → 5,239. 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 Chubbuck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Chubbuck
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.
From Chubbuck, about 17 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chubbuck workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,773 commuters (the 11% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Chubbuck
On a workday 5,669 residents head out to work, 936 work right here, and 4,303 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The commute in Chubbuck is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chubbuck is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #39 of 59 in Idaho. Both inputs place Chubbuck near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,588 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.3% of Chubbuck households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Chubbuck’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,051st of 1,999: where Chubbuck ranks among U.S. towns of 12,000 to 23,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 950 | Hayden ID | 17,363 | $83K | 7.8% | 3.1% | 15% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 956 | Middleton ID | 12,600 | $89K | 7.9% | 4.1% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 995 | Ammon ID | 20,119 | $86K | 5.4% | 5.1% | 10% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,049 | Rathdrum ID | 13,227 | $87K | 12.4% | 1.6% | 9% | B |
| 1,050 | Yulee FL | 16,648 | $85K | 10.4% | 2.7% | 7% | B |
| 1,051 | Chubbuck ID | 16,823 | $83K | 6.0% | 4.3% | 14% | B |
| 1,052 | Mount Holly NC | 19,033 | $79K | 8.2% | 5.5% | 5% | B |
| 1,053 | Belgrade MT | 13,107 | $97K | 11.2% | 3.0% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,999 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Chubbuck, the top three, the last and three more from Idaho.
47% of Chubbuck works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Pocatello. Darker towns draw more of Chubbuck’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Chubbuck: questions
What is the median household income in Chubbuck?
$82,977 (±$9,273) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chubbuck?
6.0%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chubbuck?
17 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chubbuck work?
14% work in town.
Is Chubbuck walkable?
Chubbuck is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chubbuck without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chubbuck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chubbuck
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.