Photo: Tamanoeconomico · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Middleton works elsewhere
1,697 jobs are based in Middleton, and 4,289 of its residents work somewhere. Middleton grades B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 7% work in Middleton itself; outside it, Boise City draws the most (27%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Middleton and work: the main findings
Jobs in Middleton have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Middleton went from 838 in 2013 to 1,697 in 2023, +103%. The jobs ↓
Middleton workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 27 minutes each way, against 22 across Idaho. Over a year that’s about 207 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Middleton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Middleton is better than 66% of U.S. towns, #10 of 59 in Idaho. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Middleton’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Middleton could be anywhere from C+ to A.
What Middleton’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Middleton, 2013 → 2023: 838 → 1,697. 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 Middleton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Middleton’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Middleton workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,340 commuters (the 11% 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.
Middleton by day and by night
On a workday 3,977 residents head out to work, 312 work right here, and 1,385 people come in from elsewhere.
About 10,000 people are in Middleton on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 places Middleton commutes to
Where Middleton clocks in
27% of workers
15% 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 commute from Middleton, by distance
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.
The commute in Middleton is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Middleton is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns, #44 of 59 in Idaho. Both inputs place Middleton 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 4,850 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.6% of Middleton households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Middleton’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,069th of 2,354: where Middleton ranks among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,067 | Spring Garden Township PA | 13,617 | $103K | 9.1% | 5.8% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,068 | Citrus Hills FL | 9,304 | $86K | 5.9% | 2.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,069 | Middleton ID | 12,600 | $89K | 7.9% | 4.1% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,070 | University Heights OH | 13,200 | $97K | 11.1% | 5.3% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,071 | Vandalia OH | 15,014 | $73K | 9.0% | 3.6% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,185 | Rathdrum ID | 13,227 | $87K | 12.4% | 1.6% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,187 | Chubbuck ID | 16,823 | $83K | 6.0% | 4.3% | 14% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,214 | Hailey ID | 10,053 | $91K | 7.4% | 2.3% | 30% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Middleton, 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 Middleton: questions
What is the median household income in Middleton?
$89,013 (±$15,429) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Middleton?
7.9%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Middleton?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Middleton work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boise City (27%, 21 mi), Nampa (15%, 9 mi), Meridian (12%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Middleton walkable?
Middleton is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Middleton without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Middleton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Middleton
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.