Boise City

City Commute Profile

Boise City, ID

Where Boise City’s 117,202 resident workers go each day — 62.0% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Meridian.

IdahoLODES 2023 data
77
Commute Score

77 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Boise City at a glance
Employed Residents
117,202
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
8.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
62.0%
Share working within the area
Work from home
17.6%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Meridian
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Boise City proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Boise City commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Boise City

117,202 commutes, one dot at a time

Boise City

Where 117,202 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Boise City, by worker count.

1Boise City0.0 mi72,620
2Meridian8.1 mi13,938
3Nampa16.8 mi6,042
4Garden City3.1 mi3,883
5Eagle9.0 mi3,220
6Caldwell21.9 mi1,515
7Kuna11.9 mi774
8Idaho Falls211.3 mi651

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Boise City.

1Boise City0.0 mi72,620
2Meridian8.1 mi26,510
3Nampa16.8 mi14,518
4Caldwell21.9 mi7,357
5Kuna11.9 mi5,730
6Eagle9.0 mi5,704
7Garden City3.1 mi2,734
8Star14.1 mi2,208

Top industries

The sectors that employ Boise City’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance15.9%
RTRetail Trade9.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services8.5%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services8.2%
MFManufacturing7.5%
AFAccommodation and Food Services7.4%
PAPublic Administration6.6%
EDEducational Services6.5%
WSWholesale Trade5.6%

Boise City city profile

Who lives in Boise City — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
237,242
Median age
38.6yrs
Median household income
$83,904
Median home value
$484,800
Median gross rent
$1,446/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
47.5%
Poverty rate
10.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Boise City

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

10 providers · 4 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps87%
5 Gbps14%
8 Gbps14%
See all internet providers in Boise City

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).