Census-designated place · Bannock County, Idaho

Tyhee, Idaho

Tyhee is a census-designated place in Bannock County, Idaho, part of the Pocatello, ID metro area. It has 1,568 residents. Tyhee, Idaho has a quality-of-life score of 63 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,868 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Idaho it ranks #43 of 101 cities and towns. It ranks best on loneliness (low), child care cost burden (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on distance to an Amtrak station (high), drought exposure (high) and suicide rate (high).

63High

Quality-of-life score: #5,868 of 15,651 cities and towns
Idaho: #43 of 101 in ID
Population: 1,568 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 546.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 1683170

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety52#7,535/15,637
Economy57#6,752/15,631
Housing64#5,362/14,977
Health40#9,442/15,609
Healthcare63#5,715/15,650
Environment85#2,343/15,453
Education69#4,819/15,649
Infrastructure45#8,593/15,650
Community44#8,840/15,651
Leisure & amenities54#7,141/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Tyhee, Idaho ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Bannock County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Loneliness · low31.4%
98/100Idaho 29.7%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Child care cost burden · low19.8%
95/100Idaho 20.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBannock County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Idaho 1.6 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBannock County value
Dentists · high103 /100k
91/100Idaho 66 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBannock County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low2.0%
90/100Idaho 11.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.1 µg/m³
89/100Idaho 8.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBannock County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an Amtrak station · high148 mi
5/100Idaho 155 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauBannock County value
Drought exposure · high87%
8/100Idaho 73%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAABannock County value
Suicide rate · high24.3 /100k
10/100Idaho 20.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBannock County value
Distance to an airport · high99 mi
10/100Idaho 49 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauBannock County value
Average weekly wage · low$962
12/100Idaho $1,200United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBannock County value
Students per teacher · high18.4×
12/100Idaho 17.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsBannock County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,192 (2015-2019) → 1,568 (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 20.0% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.7× (2015-2019) → 5.0× (2020-2024)
+83%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
57.3% (2015-2019) → 42.3% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
24.6% (2015-2019) → 33.7% (2020-2024)
+9.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
10.1% (2015-2019) → 2.0% (2020-2024)
−8.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Tyhee, Idaho improved on 1 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Bachelor's++9.1 points24.6% → 33.7%

Declined1

Price / income+2.3×2.7× → 5.0×

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Tyhee, Idaho between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.1 min2015-2019	25.4 min2020-2024	+6.3 min	Within the margin of error	6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.6%2015-2019	33.7%2020-2024	+9.1 points	Improved	88%
Broadband subscriptions	94.1%2015-2019	88.0%2020-2024	−6.1 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Effective property tax rate	0.67%2015-2019	0.50%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	51%
High school diploma or higher	93.4%2015-2019	91.1%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Home price to income ratio	2.7×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	+2.3×	Declined	3%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3572015-2019	0.4602020-2024	+0.102	Within the margin of error	4%
Median household income	$83,3332015-2019	$93,1252020-2024	+12%	Within the margin of error	19%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Tyhee, Idaho five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Tyhee, Idaho in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Tyhee, Idaho itself moved −26.2 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,568 residents (±320)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

474 households (±84)

Tyhee, Idaho
Idaho share

Under $25k10%†49
$25k–50k16%†78
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

474 households (±84)

Tyhee, Idaho
Idaho share

Own85%403
Rent15%†71

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

629 workers (±150)

Tyhee, Idaho
Idaho share

Drive alone77%483
Carpool8.4%†53
Public transit3.0%†19

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Pocatello, ID

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Bannock County, the county holding most of Tyhee's residents.

Bannock County has 2,353 employer establishments, 260 for every 10,000 residents (1.05× the US rate of 248; 0.88× Idaho's), with 28,575 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,402. The Census Bureau also counts 6,637 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,353; 6,637 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 260; US 248 · Idaho 295
Paid employees: 28,575
Average annual pay: $44,402; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Bannock County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	330	36.4	1.75×More than typical	2,579	$48,151	419
Specialty trade contractors	194	21.4	1.38×More than typical	1,516	$63,861	495
Restaurants and other eating places	150	16.6	0.90×About typical	3,088	$18,583	21
Offices of other health practitioners	125	13.8	2.27×More than typical	694	$39,598	208
Lessors of real estate	121	13.4	1.08×About typical	263	$40,821	693
Construction of buildings	93	10.3	1.36×More than typical	461	$48,922	232
Offices of physicians	79	8.7	1.35×More than typical	585	$76,802	104
Building equipment contractors	66	7.3	1.21×About typical	423	$50,785	76
Limited-service restaurants	66	7.3	0.91×About typical	1,520	$16,353	14
Offices of dentists	62	6.8	1.70×More than typical	466	$38,073	21
Real estate agents and brokers	60	6.6	1.36×More than typical	69	$50,609	160
Automotive repair and maintenance	57	6.3	1.25×More than typical	303	$39,805	92

Rank places for an industry Open Bannock County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 90,538 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $1,056 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Tyhee, Idaho: $0.67 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1,056; +177% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.67; US $1,994
Sole-source: 12%; US 30%
Single offer: 12%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

RELIANCE CONTRACTORS INC$33031%
NASCENCE GROUP LLC$26925%
LEGION SERVICE PROVIDER$20119%
B & G PLUMBING AND HEATING CO, INC$13212%
TAYLOR INVESTIGATION SERVICES L.L.C.$12412%

Spending by fiscal year

4.6KFY2017
2.6KFY2018
1.1KFY2019
1.4KFY2020
3.3KFY2021
7KFY2022
33.9KFY2023
59.3KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$80176%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$13212%
Investigation and security services · 5616$12412%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Tyhee, Idaho, so they do not add up across cities.

Tyhee, Idaho's figures are part of those of Bannock County, ID ($47.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Tyhee is mostly in Bannock County.

See federal money in Bannock County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Tyhee, Idaho is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Michael K. SimpsonR-ID-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 95%Missed 2.1%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Bannock County71100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Pocatello, ID73

Other cities and towns in Bannock County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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