Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · ID · GEOID 16413202024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Jerome, Idaho
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 22.0 min one way; 4.7% worked from home, 80.4% drove alone, and 5.3% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip22.0 min±3.6 min MOE
Worked from home4.7%±2.0 pp MOE
Drove alone80.4%±4.2 pp MOE
60+ minute trip5.3%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Jerome city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +3.1 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +1.4 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Jerome city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 80.4%; 0.1% used public transit and 4.7% worked from home.
Each share uses 5,974 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Jerome city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 33th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 67% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 88% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 60% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 61% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Jerome city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 5,974 workers age 16+, including 5,691 workers with reported travel time and 283 home workers.
Population estimate12,930± 23 MOE
Workers age 16+5,974± 317 MOE
Workers with travel time5,691± 354 MOE
Estimated home workers283± 120 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Idaho reports →Comparable Idaho commute records for Jerome city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.