Photo: Mandy · CC BY 2.0A job hub: Wallace has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 576 people come in to work
A typical one-way commute lasts 18 minutes, where Idaho has 22 and the U.S. 26. There are 615 jobs in Wallace, against 244 working residents. About one in seven work in Wallace itself; outside it, Osburn draws the most (15%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Wallace: the gist
Wallace is where the jobs are
Wallace has 615 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,200 people are in town, 44% more than the 840 who live here. Day and night ↓
Wallace and Osburn trade workers both ways
Osburn is the top workplace for Wallace residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Wallace come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Wallace pay little
28% of the jobs based in Wallace pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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 244 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Wallace by day
On a workday 205 residents head out to work and 39 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Wallace on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
Where Wallace’s workers come from
Where Wallace clocks in
14% 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.
In Wallace, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wallace, 2013 → 2023: 852 → 615. 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 Wallace’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Wallace: about 18 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wallace workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 368 commuters (the 13% 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.
The commute from Wallace, by distance
About 23% 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 Wallace: questions
What is the median household income in Wallace?
$51,492 (±$8,220) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wallace?
20.1%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wallace?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wallace work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Osburn (15%, 4 mi), Kellogg (14%, 11 mi), Coeur d'Alene (7%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wallace without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wallace, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wallace
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.