Idaho State Industrial School Women's Dormitory · Photo: UltraSparky · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in St. Anthony trail those of 84% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 18.0% (Idaho 10.6%). Jobs and income earn St. Anthony D; getting around on foot earns it A−. About one in seven stay in St. Anthony for work; outside it, Rexburg is the main destination (22%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: St. Anthony in brief
St. Anthony and Rexburg trade workers both ways
Rexburg is the top workplace for St. Anthony residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in St. Anthony come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Many jobs in St. Anthony pay little
26% of the jobs based in St. Anthony pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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.
The four measures behind St. Anthony’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, St. Anthony is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #56 of 59 in Idaho. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides St. Anthony’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, St. Anthony could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Where people from St. Anthony work
Where St. Anthony clocks in
22% of workers
9% of workers
3% 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.
Inside St. Anthony’s 1,198 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Anthony, 2013 → 2023: 962 → 1,198. 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 St. Anthony’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 1,273 residents head out to work, 249 work right here, and 949 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 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.
About 25 minutes each way for St. Anthony’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Anthony workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,452 commuters (the 8% 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.
Where in the region St. Anthony works
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.
St. Anthony is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Anthony is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns, #22 of 59 in Idaho. Both inputs place St. Anthony 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 1,570 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). 2.1% of St. Anthony households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of St. Anthony’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where St. Anthony sits among U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 723 | Hidden Springs ID | 3,378 | $163K | 7.2% | 4.3% | 4% | A− |
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| 1,137 | Ketchum ID | 3,643 | $93K | 5.2% | 0.0% | 37% | B+ |
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| 1,330 | Iona ID | 3,179 | $85K | 12.2% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
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| 3,791 | Carthage NY | 3,196 | $58K | 25.8% | 5.6% | 16% | D |
| 3,792 | Chandler OK | 2,963 | $47K | 29.0% | 5.5% | 26% | D |
| 3,793 | St. Anthony ID | 3,990 | $53K | 18.0% | 6.3% | 16% | D |
| 3,794 | Breckenridge MN | 3,323 | $59K | 22.2% | 6.8% | 22% | D |
| 3,795 | St. James MO | 3,925 | $53K | 19.4% | 7.5% | 20% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,177 | 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 St. Anthony, 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 St. Anthony: questions
What is the median household income in St. Anthony?
$53,152 (±$9,900) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Anthony?
18.0%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Anthony?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Anthony work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rexburg (22%, 11 mi), Idaho Falls (9%, 37 mi), Sugar City (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Anthony walkable?
St. Anthony is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Anthony without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Anthony, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Anthony
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.