Work & commute · New Meadows

Work & commute in New Meadows, ID

Most working residents leave New Meadows for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are McCall (25%), Boise City (10%) and Meridian (2%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

29 of 205 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 176 New Meadows residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 271 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in New Meadows.

176live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

271work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where New Meadows goes to work

McCall9.5 mi away

25%51

New Meadows (in town)right here

14%29

Boise City94.9 mi away

10%21

Meridian94.1 mi away

2%5

Twin Falls189.6 mi away

2%4

Nampa96.7 mi away

2%4

Donnelly19 mi away

1%3

Payette69.2 mi away

1%3

Idaho Falls233.9 mi away

1%3

Cottonwood74.7 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%80

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

How far

How far New Meadows commutes

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

37%

23%

40%

37%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

0%25–50 mi

40%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

New Meadows is balanced between jobs and homes

1.46jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.46 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in New Meadows are

300 jobs are based in New Meadows. Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Meadows’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in New Meadows

300 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs New Meadows residents hold

205 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+74%

Jobs based in New Meadows, 2013 → 2023: 172 → 300. 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.