I.O.O.F. Building · Photo: Mcgimpsey · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Menan
Only 2% work in Menan itself; outside it, Idaho Falls draws the most (36%, 16 miles). For 7% of workers, the job is at home, where Idaho as a whole has 13%. The trip to work takes 25 minutes on average; Idaho averages 22, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Menan in brief
The places Menan commutes to
Where Menan clocks in
36% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Menan
On a workday 296 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 197 people come in from elsewhere.
About 620 people are in Menan on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.67 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.
A place that makes things: 32% of Menan’s jobs are in goods
204 jobs are based in Menan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Menan, 2013 → 2023: 123 → 204. 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 Menan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Menan: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Menan workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 329 commuters (the 7% 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 commute from Menan, by distance
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.
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 Menan: questions
What is the median household income in Menan?
$80,833 (±$29,363) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Menan?
6.8%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Menan?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Menan work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Idaho Falls (36%, 16 mi), Rexburg (7%, 12 mi), Rigby (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Menan without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Menan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Menan
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.