Dover Church · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 4.0Dover has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Dover B; getting around on foot earns it B. Employers in Dover report 124 jobs, against 294 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 23% of workers; Idaho has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Dover
43% of Dover works in Sandpoint
126 working residents, 43%, have their main job in Sandpoint, 2.8 miles away across the town line. That’s 43 times as many as work in Dover itself. The commute map ↓
Most Dover residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Commutes from Dover are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 22 across Idaho. That’s about 54 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; with 294 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Dover
On income, poverty and job access, Dover is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Dover’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Dover’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Dover could be anywhere from C to A−.
43% of working residents work in Sandpoint
Where Dover clocks in
43% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Dover
About 20% 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.
A commute of about 15 minutes in Dover
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dover workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 203 commuters (the 23% 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.
Who commutes out of Dover, and who commutes in
On a workday 290 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 120 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Dover on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
73% of the jobs in Dover pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dover, 2013 → 2023: 60 → 124. 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 Dover’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Dover is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dover is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.5% across Idaho, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 265 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). 4.4% of Dover households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dover’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Dover comes 927th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 478 | Ucon ID | 1,196 | $89K | 4.2% | 1.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 533 | Robie Creek ID | 1,213 | $106K | 2.5% | 3.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 772 | Groveland ID | 1,422 | $76K | 2.0% | 4.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 925 | Rushmere VA | 1,033 | $74K | 2.6% | 4.8% | <1% | B |
| 926 | Dryden MI | 1,037 | $70K | 4.6% | 7.7% | 1% | B |
| 927 | Dover ID | 1,164 | $100K | 4.7% | 1.8% | 1% | B |
| 928 | Pinebluff NC | 1,571 | $81K | 6.1% | 7.1% | 1% | B |
| 929 | Homer Township MN | 1,310 | $94K | 5.3% | 0.8% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Dover, the top three, the last and three more from Idaho.
43% of Dover works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Sandpoint. Darker towns draw more of Dover’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 Dover: questions
What is the median household income in Dover?
$99,821 (±$36,025) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dover?
4.7%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dover?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dover work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sandpoint (43%, 3 mi), Coeur d'Alene (5%, 39 mi), Ponderay (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dover walkable?
Dover is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dover without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dover, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dover
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.