Photo: Nils Peterson · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Genesee works elsewhere
84 jobs are based in Genesee; 384 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Genesee are C for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 3% stay in Genesee for work; outside it, Lewiston is the main destination (21%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Genesee: the figures worth knowing
Where Genesee’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Genesee is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Genesee’s grade up ($85,673, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Genesee’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, Genesee could be anywhere from D to B−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Genesee
On a workday 372 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 72 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Genesee on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
The places Genesee commutes to
Where Genesee clocks in
21% 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.
What Genesee’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Genesee, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 84. 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 Genesee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Genesee: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Genesee workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 528 commuters (the 8% 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 far Genesee’s workers travel
About 19% 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.
Driving is how Genesee gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Genesee is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.5% across Idaho, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 575 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). 1.0% of Genesee households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Genesee’s commuters take a bus or train.
Genesee places 2,127th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 401 | Ucon ID | 1,196 | $89K | 4.2% | 1.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 451 | Robie Creek ID | 1,213 | $106K | 2.5% | 3.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 656 | Groveland ID | 1,422 | $76K | 2.0% | 4.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,125 | Dudley Township OH | 1,448 | $78K | 23.3% | 3.4% | <1% | C |
| 2,126 | Jefferson WI | 1,152 | $70K | 14.5% | 2.0% | 2% | C |
| 2,127 | Genesee ID | 1,094 | $86K | 12.0% | 4.1% | 3% | C |
| 2,128 | Royalton IL | 1,031 | $59K | 11.0% | 0.2% | 3% | C |
| 2,129 | Scipio Township OH | 1,178 | $76K | 9.4% | 2.3% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Genesee, the top three, the last and three more from Idaho.
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 Genesee: questions
What is the median household income in Genesee?
$85,673 (±$18,112) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Genesee?
12.0%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Genesee?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Genesee work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lewiston (21%, 11 mi), Moscow (17%, 13 mi), Pullman (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Genesee walkable?
Genesee is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Genesee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Genesee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Genesee
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.