Fort Hall · Photo: National Park Service photographer · Public domainFort Hall’s household incomes are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 22.6% of residents, against 10.6% across Idaho. Jobs and income earn Fort Hall D−; getting around on foot earns it D−. Home is the office for 2% of workers; Idaho has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Fort Hall: the figures worth knowing
Fort Hall and Pocatello trade workers both ways
Pocatello is the top workplace for Fort Hall residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Fort Hall come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Fort Hall 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 Fort Hall 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 ↓
Fewer than half of Fort Hall workers earn over $40,000 a year
41% of Fort Hall’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Fort Hall is services
89% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Fort Hall: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fort Hall is better than 4% of U.S. towns, #59 of 59 in Idaho. Job access by car holds Fort Hall’s grade up (ahead of 29% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (13.3%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fort Hall could be anywhere from D− to D.
18% of working residents work in Pocatello
Where Fort Hall clocks in
5% 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.
How far it is to work from Fort Hall
About 16% 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.
Time on the road from Fort Hall: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Hall workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,014 commuters (the 2% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Fort Hall
1,247 jobs are based in Fort Hall.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Hall, 2013 → 2023: 972 → 1,247. 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 Fort Hall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Fort Hall
On a workday 714 residents head out to work, 450 work right here, and 797 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 (1.07 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.
In Fort Hall, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fort Hall is near the bottom of U.S. towns, #59 of 59 in Idaho. Both inputs place Fort Hall 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 1,034 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). 12.6% of Fort Hall households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fort Hall’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600, and where Fort Hall sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 662 | Hidden Springs ID | 3,378 | $163K | 7.2% | 4.3% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 684 | Dalton Gardens ID | 2,496 | $80K | 4.6% | 1.1% | 8% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,275 | Iona ID | 3,179 | $85K | 12.2% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,542 | Big Prairie Township MI | 2,569 | $53K | 22.1% | 7.0% | 2% | D− |
| 4,543 | Central Heights-Midland City AZ | 2,909 | $61K | 22.5% | 11.9% | 1% | D− |
| 4,544 | Fort Hall ID | 2,654 | $45K | 22.6% | 13.3% | 39% | D− |
| 4,545 | Elba AL | 3,408 | $45K | 23.8% | 8.3% | 17% | D− |
| 4,546 | Fulton KY | 2,252 | $36K | 30.8% | 2.0% | 21% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Fort Hall, the top three, the last and three more from Idaho.
Next door to Fort Hall
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Fort Hall’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 Fort Hall: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Hall?
$44,514 (±$12,193) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Hall?
22.6%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Hall?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Hall work?
39% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pocatello (18%, 10 mi), Chubbuck (5%, 6 mi), Idaho Falls (5%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fort Hall walkable?
Fort Hall is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 2.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fort Hall without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Hall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Hall
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.