Chatcolet CCC Picnic and Camping Area · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Conkling Park works elsewhere
Home is the office for 100% of workers, next to 13% for Idaho as a whole. Conkling Park has 5 jobs, and 26 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Conkling Park; the top destination outside it is Coeur d'Alene (27%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Conkling Park quiets down on a workday
On a workday 26 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Conkling Park on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Commuting out of Conkling Park: the destinations
Where Conkling Park clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Conkling Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conkling Park, 2013 → 2023: 1,067 → 5. 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 Conkling Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Conkling Park
of Conkling Park workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Conkling Park
About 15% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Conkling Park workers work outside Idaho. The job records count 16% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Conkling Park: questions
What is the median household income in Conkling Park?
$31,554 (±$7,816) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Conkling Park?
11.4%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Conkling Park work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coeur d'Alene (27%, 21 mi), Post Falls (15%, 24 mi), Plummer (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Conkling Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conkling Park
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.