Big Cedar School · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 4.0Stites has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Stites report 16 jobs, and 40 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Stites for work; outside it, Cottonwood is the main destination (18%, 18 miles). 2% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Idaho as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Stites by day and by night
On a workday 40 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 16 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Stites on a workday afternoon, 13% 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 Stites work
Where Stites clocks in
18% of workers
18% of workers
13% 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.
The kinds of work in Stites
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stites, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 16. 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 Stites’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Stites takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stites workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 commuters (the 2% 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.
Miles to work from Stites
About 18% 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 Stites: questions
What is the median household income in Stites?
$28,438 (±$19,550) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stites?
32.1%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stites?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stites work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cottonwood (18%, 18 mi), Grangeville (18%, 14 mi), Kamiah (13%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Stites without a car?
0% 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 Stites, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stites
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.