Photo: User:Quasipalm · Public domainHeyburn has lower household incomes than 67% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 1% of workers, next to 13% for Idaho as a whole. Below the poverty line: 20.8% of residents, next to 10.6% for Idaho as a whole. Jobs and income earn Heyburn C−; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Heyburn apart
Heyburn and Burley trade workers both ways
Burley is the top workplace for Heyburn residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Heyburn come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Heyburn 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 ↓
Most Heyburn residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Few Heyburn workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 13% across Idaho. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
42% of the jobs in Heyburn are in trade, transport and utilities, against 22% of the jobs its residents hold. 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.
How Heyburn earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Heyburn is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #46 of 59 in Idaho. Unemployment holds Heyburn’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Heyburn could be anywhere from D to B.
27% of working residents work in Burley
Where Heyburn clocks in
27% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
About 15 minutes each way for Heyburn’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Heyburn workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,724 commuters (the 1% 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 it is to work from Heyburn
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.
Goods, not services: 34% of the jobs in Heyburn
1,072 jobs are based in Heyburn.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Heyburn, 2013 → 2023: 894 → 1,072. 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 Heyburn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Heyburn by day
On a workday 1,457 residents head out to work, 79 work right here, and 993 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Heyburn on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.70 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 commute in Heyburn is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Heyburn is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns, #55 of 59 in Idaho. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.5% across Idaho.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,749 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 Heyburn households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Heyburn’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Heyburn is 3,534th of 4,430 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 738 | Hidden Springs ID | 3,378 | $163K | 7.2% | 4.3% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,157 | Ketchum ID | 3,643 | $93K | 5.2% | 0.0% | 37% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,355 | Iona ID | 3,179 | $85K | 12.2% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,532 | Atoka OK | 2,975 | $44K | 17.3% | 2.3% | 27% | C− |
| 3,533 | Yorkshire NY | 3,733 | $48K | 19.0% | 2.5% | 8% | C− |
| 3,534 | Heyburn ID | 3,783 | $64K | 20.8% | 4.5% | 5% | C− |
| 3,535 | Elmira Heights NY | 3,716 | $58K | 24.6% | 5.4% | 4% | C− |
| 3,536 | Glassport PA | 4,251 | $48K | 15.9% | 15.0% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,430 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Heyburn, the top three, the last and three more from Idaho.
Heyburn and its neighbors: 27% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Burley. Darker towns draw more of Heyburn’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 Heyburn: questions
What is the median household income in Heyburn?
$64,179 (±$10,584) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Heyburn?
20.8%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Heyburn?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Heyburn work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burley (27%, 2 mi), Rupert (9%, 6 mi), Twin Falls (8%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Heyburn walkable?
Heyburn is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Heyburn 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 Heyburn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Heyburn
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.