Photo: Chanilim714 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hammett has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any work in Hammett itself; outside it, Glenns Ferry draws the most (30%, 8 miles). Employers in Hammett report 21 jobs for 107 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Idaho 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Hammett
On a workday 106 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 230 people are in Hammett 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.
Where Hammett goes to work
Where Hammett clocks in
18% of workers
7% 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.
Making and building: 81% of jobs based in Hammett
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hammett, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 21. 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 Hammett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes each way for Hammett’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hammett workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 160 commuters (the 0% 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 many miles Hammett commutes
About 46% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Hammett: questions
What is the poverty rate in Hammett?
7.2%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hammett?
17 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hammett work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Glenns Ferry (30%, 8 mi), Boise City (18%, 59 mi), Mountain Home (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hammett without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hammett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hammett
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.