Charles C. Vineyard House · Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hansen has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Hansen D; getting around on foot earns it C. There are 129 jobs in Hansen for 436 working residents. Measured by household income, Hansen is behind 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hansen: the figures worth knowing
42% of Hansen works in Twin Falls
181 working residents, 42%, have their main job in Twin Falls, 8.4 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Hansen itself. The commute map ↓
Most Hansen residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Hansen is a place people come home to
There are 129 jobs based in Hansen, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hansen has about 800 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 436 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Hansen
On income, poverty and job access, Hansen is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Hansen’s grade up (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (29.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Hansen’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hansen could be anywhere from D to C−.
42% of working residents work in Twin Falls
Where Hansen clocks in
42% 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.
Half of Hansen commutes less than 9 miles
About 18% 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.
In and out of Hansen on a workday
On a workday 422 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Hansen on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 kinds of work in Hansen
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hansen, 2013 → 2023: 87 → 129. 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 Hansen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Hansen, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hansen workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 497 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.
Hansen is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hansen is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Hansen 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 538 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). 2.1% of Hansen households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hansen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hansen places 3,157th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,155 | Bethlehem Township OH | 1,083 | $64K | 25.0% | 1.8% | 2% | D |
| 3,156 | Adwolf VA | 1,046 | $44K | 15.0% | 0.0% | 1% | D |
| 3,157 | Hansen ID | 1,109 | $50K | 29.8% | 1.1% | 3% | D |
| 3,158 | Dillsboro IN | 1,375 | $49K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 5% | D |
| 3,159 | Sherburn MN | 1,040 | $60K | 22.7% | 9.1% | 9% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Hansen, 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 Hansen: questions
What is the median household income in Hansen?
$50,083 (±$11,218) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hansen?
29.8%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hansen?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hansen work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Twin Falls (42%, 8 mi), Kimberly (8%, 4 mi), Boise City (3%, 122 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hansen walkable?
Hansen is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hansen 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 Hansen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hansen
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.