Work & commute · Mountain Home AFB

Work & commute in Mountain Home AFB, ID

Most working residents leave Mountain Home AFB for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Boise City (18%), Mountain Home (12%) and Meridian (9%). Half commute less than 50 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 292 working residents

Typical commute

50 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

11 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 285 Mountain Home AFB residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 220 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain Home AFB.

285live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

220work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain Home AFB goes to work

Boise City42.1 mi away

18%52

Mountain Home10.2 mi away

12%36

Meridian47.2 mi away

9%25

Nampa51.1 mi away

5%15

Twin Falls78.7 mi away

3%9

Idaho Falls195.1 mi away

3%8

Garden City47.9 mi away

2%7

Mountain Home AFB (in town)right here

2%7

Burley111 mi away

2%6

Caldwell57.4 mi away

2%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%122

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Mountain Home AFB commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

11%

32%

51%

11%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

32%25–50 mi

51%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain Home AFB is balanced between jobs and homes

0.78jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain Home AFB are

227 jobs are based in Mountain Home AFB. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain Home AFB’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mountain Home AFB

227 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)98%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Mountain Home AFB residents hold

292 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month40%

+4%

Jobs based in Mountain Home AFB, 2013 → 2023: 218 → 227. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.