Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: St. Maries has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 1,351 people come in to work
1,674 jobs are based in St. Maries; 861 of its residents have a job. The two grades for St. Maries are C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About one in three work in St. Maries; the top destination outside it is Coeur d'Alene (7%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where St. Maries stands out on work
St. Maries is where the jobs are
St. Maries has 1,674 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from St. Maries are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 22 across Idaho. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Idaho 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 861 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind St. Maries’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, St. Maries is better than 17% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds St. Maries’ grade up (5.0%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, St. Maries could be anywhere from D− to B.
The daily flow of workers through St. Maries
On a workday 538 residents head out to work and 323 work right here.
About 3,300 people are in St. Maries on a workday afternoon, 33% more 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.
Time on the road from St. Maries: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Maries workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,245 commuters (the 7% 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.
Commuting in to St. Maries: where workers come from
Where St. Maries clocks in
6% 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.
What St. Maries’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Maries, 2013 → 2023: 1,729 → 1,674. 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. Maries’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from St. Maries
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. Maries 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. Maries is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place St. Maries 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 1,332 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). 5.6% of St. Maries households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of St. Maries’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, St. Maries is 4,099th among 5,207 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 690 | Dalton Gardens ID | 2,496 | $80K | 4.6% | 1.1% | 8% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,319 | Iona ID | 3,179 | $85K | 12.2% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,324 | Filer ID | 3,026 | $65K | 5.1% | 0.7% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,097 | Shirley Township PA | 2,374 | $50K | 12.3% | 4.4% | 15% | C− |
| 4,098 | Aberdeen ID | 1,852 | $83K | 14.2% | 8.0% | 14% | C− |
| 4,099 | St. Maries ID | 2,457 | $60K | 12.7% | 5.0% | 38% | C− |
| 4,100 | Mountain Lake MN | 1,949 | $66K | 14.3% | 2.5% | 23% | C− |
| 4,101 | Okemah OK | 3,091 | $32K | 38.6% | 1.5% | 26% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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. Maries, 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. Maries: questions
What is the median household income in St. Maries?
$60,458 (±$17,356) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Maries?
12.7%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Maries?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Maries work?
38% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coeur d'Alene (7%, 29 mi), Plummer (6%, 15 mi), Boise City (3%, 257 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Maries walkable?
St. Maries is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Maries without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Maries, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Maries
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.