Work & commute · St. Maries

Work & commute in St. Maries, ID

About one in 3 of St. Maries’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Coeur d'Alene (7%), Plummer (6%) and Boise City (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

38%

323 of 861 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 538 St. Maries residents head out of town to work, 323 work right here, and 1,351 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Maries.

538live here, work elsewhere

323live and work here

1,351work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Maries goes to work

St. Maries (in town)right here

38%323

Coeur d'Alene28.8 mi away

7%56

Plummer14.7 mi away

6%53

Boise City257.3 mi away

3%23

Spokane Valley, WA39.1 mi away

2%19

Post Falls33.3 mi away

2%16

Pullman, WA49 mi away

1%12

Moscow45.1 mi away

1%9

Spokane, WA47 mi away

1%9

Lewiston66.7 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%333

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

How far

How far St. Maries commutes

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

50%

14%

22%

14%

50%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Maries is a job hub

1.94jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Maries are

1,674 jobs are based in St. Maries. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Maries’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Maries

1,674 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs St. Maries residents hold

861 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−3%

Jobs based in St. Maries, 2013 → 2023: 1,729 → 1,674. 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.