Anna Nielsen Scofield House · Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0St. Charles has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
29% of workers have no commute at all, against 13% across Idaho. There are 6 jobs in St. Charles, and 63 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in St. Charles for work; outside it, Montpelier is the main destination (24%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
St. Charles quiets down on a workday
On a workday 63 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in St. Charles on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Where people from St. Charles work
Where St. Charles clocks in
16% of workers
6% 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.
What St. Charles’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Charles, 2013 → 2023: 10 → 6. 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. Charles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way, about the ID average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Charles workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 32 commuters (the 29% 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. Charles works
About 30% 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 St. Charles: questions
What is the poverty rate in St. Charles?
11.7%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Charles?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Charles work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montpelier (24%, 16 mi), Paris (16%, 8 mi), Soda Springs (6%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around St. Charles without a car?
0% 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. Charles, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Charles
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.