Photo: Bobjgalindo · CC BY-SA 3.0Earning a living in Ririe
The average commute takes 33 minutes each way; Idaho averages 22, the U.S. 26. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Idaho 13%). Only 1% work in Ririe itself; outside it, Idaho Falls draws the most (30%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Ririe apart on work
Young people hold many of the jobs here
52% of the jobs based in Ririe are held by workers 29 or younger, against 22% of Ririe’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
30% of Ririe works in Idaho Falls
86 working residents, 30%, have their main job in Idaho Falls, 17 miles away. That’s 30 times as many as work in Ririe itself. The commute map ↓
Ririe workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 22 across Idaho. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 84 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; with 287 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Most jobs in Ririe are in services
389 jobs are based in Ririe.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ririe, 2013 → 2023: 95 → 389. 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 Ririe’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Ririe’s working residents head each day
Where Ririe clocks in
30% 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.
How long Ririe spends getting to work: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ririe workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 602 commuters (the 0% 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.
In and out of Ririe on a workday
On a workday 283 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 385 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Ririe on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.36 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ririe
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.
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 Ririe: questions
What is the median household income in Ririe?
$67,123 (±$3,465) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ririe?
4.5%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ririe?
33 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ririe work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Idaho Falls (30%, 16 mi), Rexburg (8%, 13 mi), Rigby (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ririe 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 Ririe, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ririe
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.