Work & commute · Sugar

Work & commute in Sugar, ID

Most working residents leave Sugar for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Rexburg (32%), Idaho Falls (11%) and St. Anthony (4%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

110 of 819 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

30%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 709 Sugar residents head out of town to work, 110 work right here, and 535 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar.

709live here, work elsewhere

110live and work here

535work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sugar goes to work

Rexburg4.1 mi away

32%263

Sugar City (in town)right here

13%110

Idaho Falls30.1 mi away

11%90

St. Anthony7.2 mi away

4%32

Boise City224.4 mi away

3%22

Pocatello78 mi away

2%18

Rigby16.1 mi away

2%15

Ammon29.5 mi away

1%10

Blackfoot55.7 mi away

1%9

Twin Falls163.7 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%242

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

How far

How far Sugar commutes

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

57%

18%

19%

57%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar is balanced between jobs and homes

0.79jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar are

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

Jobs based in Sugar

645 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Sugar residents hold

819 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+20%

Jobs based in Sugar, 2013 → 2023: 537 → 645. 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.