Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Earning a living in Riggins
For 25% of workers, the job is at home, where Idaho as a whole has 13%. About one in five work in Riggins itself; outside it, McCall draws the most (6%, 37 miles). The average commute, 21 minutes each way, matches the Idaho norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Riggins by day and by night
On a workday 102 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 150 people come in from elsewhere.
About 440 people are in Riggins on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.38 per resident).
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 Riggins commutes to
Where Riggins clocks in
6% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Riggins
174 jobs are based in Riggins.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riggins, 2013 → 2023: 168 → 174. 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 Riggins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Riggins: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riggins workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 56 commuters (the 25% 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 distance from Riggins to work
About 35% 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 Riggins: questions
What is the median household income in Riggins?
$31,471 (±$15,881) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riggins?
18.3%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riggins?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riggins work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McCall (6%, 37 mi), New Meadows (4%, 31 mi), Grangeville (4%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Riggins without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riggins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riggins
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.