With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Tyhee works elsewhere
307 jobs are based in Tyhee for 573 working residents. For jobs and income Tyhee is better than 52% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (B−). Only 3% work in Tyhee itself; outside it, Pocatello draws the most (43%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tyhee and work: the main findings
Tyhee and Pocatello trade workers both ways
Pocatello is the top workplace for Tyhee residents (43%) and also where the most people who work in Tyhee come from (32% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Tyhee residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Tyhee’s working residents have a job less than 6 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 25 minutes, longer than the Idaho average of 22. 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 573 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Tyhee’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Tyhee’s grade up ($93,125, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.4%) is left out: Tyhee’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tyhee could be anywhere from C to A.
Commuting out of Tyhee: the destinations
Where Tyhee clocks in
10% 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 commute from Tyhee, by distance
About 15% 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.
The trip to work from Tyhee: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tyhee workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 578 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.
Tyhee on a workday afternoon
On a workday 557 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 291 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Tyhee on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
A place that makes things: 41% of Tyhee’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tyhee, 2013 → 2023: 195 → 307. 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 Tyhee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Tyhee walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.5% across Idaho, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 629 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). 0.0% of Tyhee households have no vehicle (Idaho 3.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Tyhee’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tyhee next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 1,979th of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 729 | Ucon ID | 1,196 | $89K | 4.2% | 1.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 816 | Robie Creek ID | 1,213 | $106K | 2.5% | 3.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,154 | Groveland ID | 1,422 | $76K | 2.0% | 4.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,977 | Barrington NY | 1,526 | $91K | 5.9% | 0.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,978 | Madison Township OH | 1,803 | $95K | 10.6% | 7.2% | 0% | B− |
| 1,979 | Tyhee ID | 1,568 | $93K | 11.9% | 5.4% | 3% | B− |
| 1,980 | Spring Park MN | 1,647 | $48K | 9.0% | 8.9% | 3% | B− |
| 1,981 | Nutter Fort WV | 1,451 | $68K | 8.4% | 3.5% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Tyhee, the top three, the last and three more from Idaho.
The towns next door employ 15% of Tyhee
The biggest share goes to Chubbuck (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Tyhee’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Tyhee: questions
What is the median household income in Tyhee?
$93,125 (±$18,951) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tyhee?
11.9%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tyhee?
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 Tyhee work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pocatello (43%, 6 mi), Chubbuck (13%, 2 mi), Idaho Falls (10%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tyhee walkable?
Tyhee is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tyhee without a car?
3% 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 Tyhee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tyhee
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.