Photo: Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0Unemployment in Grangeville (2.0%) is lower than in 85% of U.S. towns
6% of workers work from home, against 13% across Idaho. For jobs and income Grangeville is better than 28% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (A). About two in five work in Grangeville; the top destination outside it is Lewiston (4%, 53 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Grangeville: the gist
Where Grangeville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Unemployment holds Grangeville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Grangeville could be anywhere from D to B−.
About 16 minutes each way for Grangeville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grangeville workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,511 commuters (the 6% 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 Grangeville
On a workday 679 residents head out to work, 538 work right here, and 1,251 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in Grangeville on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Grangeville goes to work
Where Grangeville clocks in
4% of workers
3% 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 Grangeville
1,789 jobs are based in Grangeville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grangeville, 2014 → 2024: 1,702 → 1,789. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Grangeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Grangeville
About 26% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Grangeville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.5% across Idaho, on an EPA index of 7.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,600 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). 1.5% of Grangeville households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grangeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Grangeville next to U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900: 3,273rd of 4,474 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 734 | Hidden Springs ID | 3,378 | $163K | 7.2% | 4.3% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,153 | Ketchum ID | 3,643 | $93K | 5.2% | 0.0% | 36% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,353 | Iona ID | 3,179 | $85K | 12.2% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,271 | Newport VT | 2,583 | $71K | 8.9% | 0.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,272 | Green Forest AR | 3,246 | $50K | 10.2% | 3.9% | 24% | C |
| 3,273 | Grangeville ID | 3,621 | $61K | 16.3% | 2.0% | 44% | C |
| 3,274 | Corunna MI | 3,000 | $46K | 14.9% | 4.3% | 6% | C |
| 3,275 | Knob Noster MO | 2,997 | $62K | 6.0% | 10.0% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Grangeville, 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 2024, 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 Grangeville: questions
What is the median household income in Grangeville?
$61,322 (±$17,559) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grangeville?
16.3%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grangeville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grangeville work?
44% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lewiston (4%, 53 mi), Cottonwood (3%, 14 mi), Boise City (3%, 161 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Grangeville walkable?
Grangeville is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grangeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grangeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grangeville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.