Photo: Tommyers89 · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Twin Falls have lower incomes than those in 72% of U.S. towns
Twin Falls grades B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 11.4% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 10.6% for Idaho as a whole. More than half work in Twin Falls itself; outside it, Jerome draws the most (4%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Twin Falls stands out on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Twin Falls
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Twin Falls is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #24 of 59 in Idaho. Unemployment holds Twin Falls’ grade up (3.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($61,205, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Twin Falls could be anywhere from C+ to B.
From Twin Falls, about 16 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Twin Falls workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 24,615 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.
Twin Falls fills up on a workday
On a workday 9,912 residents head out to work, 12,674 work right here, and 16,572 people come in from elsewhere.
About 63,000 people are in Twin Falls on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.29 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.
Where Twin Falls goes to work
Where Twin Falls clocks in
4% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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 work there is in Twin Falls: 29,246 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Twin Falls, 2013 → 2023: 24,557 → 29,246. 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 Twin Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Twin Falls’ workers travel
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.
Twin Falls is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Twin Falls is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #35 of 59 in Idaho. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.5% across Idaho.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 26,478 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). 3.7% of Twin Falls households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Twin Falls’ commuters take a bus or train.
Twin Falls places 556th of 797 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 39,000 to 76,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 465 | Coeur d'Alene ID | 58,179 | $72K | 9.2% | 2.9% | 44% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 492 | Post Falls ID | 46,715 | $82K | 11.1% | 3.3% | 22% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 544 | Idaho Falls ID | 71,785 | $73K | 11.5% | 4.2% | 54% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 554 | Oshkosh WI | 67,460 | $62K | 17.5% | 2.8% | 42% | B− |
| 555 | Eau Claire WI | 72,465 | $67K | 14.3% | 3.4% | 50% | B− |
| 556 | Twin Falls ID | 56,216 | $61K | 11.4% | 3.0% | 56% | B− |
| 557 | Port Orange FL | 66,395 | $74K | 11.0% | 4.7% | 14% | B− |
| 558 | New Albany Township IN | 52,380 | $65K | 14.5% | 4.5% | 24% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 797 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Twin Falls, 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 Twin Falls: questions
What is the median household income in Twin Falls?
$61,205 (±$2,722) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Twin Falls?
11.4%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Twin Falls?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Twin Falls work?
56% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jerome (4%, 11 mi), Boise City (4%, 114 mi), Burley (2%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Twin Falls walkable?
Twin Falls is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Twin Falls without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Twin Falls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Twin Falls
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.