If a man moves into sober living without a car, what he can reach on foot decides whether a house works for a job, an appointment, a grocery run, and a load of laundry in the same week.
This page gives the measured walking time and distance from each of Realcovery Idaho's three men's houses in Twin Falls, house by house, including the categories where a house comes up short.
1. What the numbers on this page mean
Every figure below is a walking time and a walking distance from one house address to one specific place. A count is the number of places in that category found within walking range of that address. Eight is the highest count that appears anywhere in this data, so read an eight as "at least eight" rather than an exact tally. Where a count is zero, nothing in that category was found in range, and this page prints the zero instead of skipping the row.
Some places below are named and others are described by category only. None of the places measured here are run by Realcovery, and naming every one of them could suggest otherwise, so most are counted and measured rather than named.
One category note, because it changes how a row reads. The library sits inside the civic and social services group, so at 212 4th Ave E the nearest civic place and the nearest library are the same building.
Realcovery Idaho operates men's sober living houses. A sober living house is housing. It is not treatment, not detox, not medical care, and not a clinical program. Clinics appear on this page because of where they sit on the street, not because Realcovery has anything to do with them.
2. 212 4th Ave E, the downtown house
A public library is 0.04 miles from the door of 212 4th Ave E, a one minute walk. For a man rebuilding a resume, applying for jobs online, or sitting down at a computer he does not own, that is the most useful number on this page.
This address is also the strongest of the three for finding work. Eight work category places fall within range. The nearest is a temp agency at 5 minutes and 0.24 miles, and a second staffing office sits at 5 minutes and 0.25 miles. Neither of the other two houses has a staffing office anywhere near that close.
Everyday errands are short here. A convenience store is 3 minutes away at 0.14 miles and a grocery store is 9 minutes at 0.43 miles. A city park is 3 minutes at 0.12 miles. A place of worship is 2 minutes at 0.08 miles. A walk in clinic is 4 minutes at 0.20 miles, a pharmacy 8 minutes at 0.36 miles, and the nearest hospital 9 minutes at 0.41 miles. Eight civic places are in range, the nearest of them the library itself at 1 minute. A courthouse is 4 minutes at 0.18 miles and a social and human services office is 7 minutes at 0.31 miles, which matters when there are court dates or benefits paperwork to keep up with.
Named places within range of 212 4th Ave E:
- First Federal Offices, a bank office, 4 minutes, 0.18 miles
- Culture For Change Foundation, a nonprofit, 4 minutes, 0.21 miles
- Twin Beans Coffee Company, a coffee shop, 5 minutes, 0.25 miles
- The Twin Falls Sandwich Company, a sandwich shop, 7 minutes, 0.34 miles
- Yellow Brick Cafe, a cafe, 7 minutes, 0.34 miles
The weak spot is laundry. Only one laundry place is in range, Magic Suds Addison, at 19 minutes and 0.89 miles. Hauling a week of clothes that far each way is real work, and it is a fair question to ask the house how residents handle it.
3. 676 Shoup Ave W, the house with a laundromat next door
A laundromat is 0.01 miles from 676 Shoup Ave W, which is next door and under a minute on foot. That erases the exact problem the downtown house has.
An addiction treatment clinic is a one minute walk, 0.06 miles away. That is a fact about the street and not a service Realcovery offers. Realcovery is a sober living residence and provides no treatment and no clinical care of any kind. What the number does mean is that a resident already enrolled in outpatient care on that corridor is not depending on a ride to keep his appointments.
Health and civic services are the strength at this address. Eight health category places are in range, including a public health clinic at 3 minutes and 0.12 miles, a second addiction treatment office at 3 minutes and 0.12 miles, and a medical center at 3 minutes and 0.15 miles. Eight civic places are in range as well, the nearest a county nonprofit program 1 minute away at 0.06 miles, with a social and human services office at 6 minutes and 0.29 miles. A driver's license office is 3 minutes away at 0.13 miles, which counts for anyone replacing a lost ID.
Food, groceries, and parks within range:
- Asian Food Market, a grocery store, 10 minutes, 0.47 miles
- Dairy Queen Grill & Chill, 10 minutes, 0.47 miles
- A&W Restaurant, 14 minutes, 0.65 miles
- Harry Barry Park, 14 minutes, 0.66 miles
- McDonald's, 17 minutes, 0.77 miles
- Swensen's Magic Market, a grocery store, 18 minutes, 0.84 miles
- Rock Creek Park, 18 minutes, 0.84 miles
- The Human Bean, a coffee shop, 19 minutes, 0.88 miles
- Norm's Cafe, 20 minutes, 0.94 miles
Three gaps are worth stating plainly. Work is thin: 4 work category places in range, the nearest at 16 minutes and 0.76 miles, and the nearest employment agency at 22 minutes and 1.02 miles. Money is thinner: only 2 money category places in range, both of them bitcoin ATMs, at 14 minutes and 0.64 miles and at 17 minutes and 0.81 miles, with no bank branch measured in range at all. And no pharmacy shows up in range. The nearest place labeled a library is a little free library at 17 minutes and 0.78 miles, which is a book box on a post, not a branch.
4. 2091 4th Ave E, the east side house and its gaps
The data shows zero work category places within walking range of 2091 4th Ave E. No temp agency, no staffing office, no employment agency. A man or a family choosing this house should know that before move in day, because a job search that depends on walking into a staffing office starts here with finding a ride.
Health is thin here too, at 3 places in range. The nearest is 5 minutes away at 0.25 miles, but a pharmacy is 23 minutes at 1.09 miles and an urgent care clinic is 24 minutes at 1.10 miles.
Groceries look fine as a count, at 8, and then the distances tell the truth. The nearest grocery store is 15 minutes at 0.69 miles, Stinker Stores is 20 minutes at 0.95 miles, and Grocery Outlet is 21 minutes at 0.96 miles. Laundry is the hardest number on this page: one laundry place in range, at 31 minutes and 1.42 miles.
The shape of this address shows up in one number. Counting every place measured from each house, 22 sit within a 5 minute walk of 212 4th Ave E and 16 within 5 minutes of 676 Shoup Ave W. From 2091 4th Ave E the number is 1, and the nearest place of any kind is 5 minutes away at 0.25 miles. This is a residential block rather than a commercial one, and that cuts both ways.
What the address does have is a spread of training, banks, and gyms once a man is willing to walk 10 or 15 minutes. Eight civic places are in range with the nearest at 14 minutes and 0.63 miles. Six school and training places are in range, including a commercial driver school at 8 minutes and 0.37 miles, college addresses at 11 minutes and 0.51 miles, and a vocational services office at 14 minutes and 0.63 miles. The YMCA is 14 minutes at 0.66 miles. Lighthouse Church is 17 minutes at 0.77 miles, one of 5 faith places in range. A bank is 8 minutes at 0.37 miles, with 8 money category places in range. Subway is 17 minutes at 0.78 miles and Rice & Bites is 26 minutes at 1.20 miles, out of 8 food places in range with the nearest at 9 minutes and 0.41 miles.
For a resident with a ride to work, or a job already on the east side, this address reads very differently than it does for a man walking everywhere.
5. The three houses side by side
Walking time and distance to the nearest place in each category, with the number of places of that kind found in range.
| Category | 212 4th Ave E | 2091 4th Ave E | 676 Shoup Ave W |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work and staffing | 8 in range, nearest 5 min (0.24 mi) | 0 in range | 4 in range, nearest 16 min (0.76 mi) |
| Grocery and convenience places in range | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Nearest grocery store | 9 min (0.43 mi) | 15 min (0.69 mi) | 10 min (0.47 mi) |
| Health and clinics | 8 in range, nearest 4 min (0.20 mi) | 3 in range, nearest 5 min (0.25 mi) | 8 in range, nearest 1 min (0.06 mi) |
| Nearest pharmacy | 8 min (0.36 mi) | 23 min (1.09 mi) | none in range |
| Civic and social services | 8 in range, nearest 1 min (0.04 mi), the library | 8 in range, nearest 14 min (0.63 mi) | 8 in range, nearest 1 min (0.06 mi) |
| Library | 1 min (0.04 mi) | none in range | 17 min (0.78 mi), a little free library |
| Places of worship | 8 in range, nearest 2 min (0.08 mi) | 5 in range, nearest 17 min (0.77 mi) | 8 in range, nearest 7 min (0.32 mi) |
| Laundry | 1 in range, 19 min (0.89 mi) | 1 in range, 31 min (1.42 mi) | 2 in range, nearest 0.01 mi |
| Food | 8 in range, nearest 3 min (0.14 mi) | 8 in range, nearest 9 min (0.41 mi) | 8 in range, nearest 10 min (0.47 mi) |
| Parks and gyms | 8 in range, nearest 3 min (0.12 mi) | 8 in range, nearest 14 min (0.66 mi) | 5 in range, nearest 3 min (0.13 mi) |
| Banks and ATMs | 8 in range, nearest 3 min (0.12 mi) | 8 in range, nearest 8 min (0.37 mi) | 2 in range, both bitcoin ATMs, nearest 14 min (0.64 mi) |
| Schools and training | 5 in range, nearest 6 min (0.27 mi) | 6 in range, nearest 8 min (0.37 mi) | 2 in range, nearest 3 min (0.14 mi) |
| Transportation category | 0 in range | 1 in range, 23 min (1.06 mi) | 1 in range, 3 min (0.13 mi) |
| Places of any kind within a 5 minute walk | 22 | 1 | 16 |
- Strongest overall on foot
- 212 4th Ave E. Shortest walk in most categories, with the one clear gap at laundry, 19 minutes and 0.89 miles.
- Strongest for clinics and laundry
- 676 Shoup Ave W. A laundromat at 0.01 miles and an addiction treatment clinic at 1 minute, offset by no bank branch and no pharmacy in range.
- Hardest without a car
- 2091 4th Ave E. Zero work places in range, 1 place of any kind within a 5 minute walk, the nearest grocery store at 15 minutes, and laundry at 31 minutes.
6. Getting around Twin Falls without a car
The transportation category deserves a careful read. It returns 0 places for 212 4th Ave E, 1 place for 2091 4th Ave E at 23 minutes and 1.06 miles, and 1 place for 676 Shoup Ave W at 3 minutes and 0.13 miles. The entry near 676 Shoup Ave W is a driver's license office and the one near 2091 4th Ave E is a trucking company. Neither is a bus stop. Nothing in this data measures a fixed route transit stop at any of the three addresses, so the realistic plan is walking, rides from other residents, and an employer on a street a man can actually reach.
That is why counts alone mislead. All three houses show 8 grocery and convenience places in range, and the nearest one is 3 minutes from 212 4th Ave E, 5 minutes from 676 Shoup Ave W, and 15 minutes from 2091 4th Ave E. Same count, three different weeks.
The same rule applies to laundry. A short walk is one a man makes several times a week without thinking about it. A long one, carrying a basket or a week of groceries, becomes a trip that has to fit around a work shift. A laundromat at 0.01 miles and a laundromat at 1.42 miles are not the same amenity with different numbers. They are two different living situations.
7. What Realcovery is, and what it is not
Realcovery Idaho runs men's sober living houses at 212 4th Ave E, 2091 4th Ave E, and 676 Shoup Ave W in Twin Falls. Sober living is housing with structure. It is not treatment, not detox, not medical or psychiatric care, and not a clinical program.
Several clinics show up in the measurements above because they sit on nearby streets. Their presence in this data says where they are and nothing more. It does not say that Realcovery provides, supervises, refers to, or is affiliated with any of them. Anything clinical stays between a resident and his own providers.
This page makes no claims about outcomes. There are no success rates here and no recovery statistics, because none exist in the measurements behind this page. Nothing here is medical advice. Questions about care belong with a licensed clinician.
Questions people ask
- Which house is easiest to live in without a car?
- 212 4th Ave E. A library is 1 minute away at 0.04 miles, the nearest food is 3 minutes at 0.14 miles, a park is 3 minutes at 0.12 miles, a bank is 3 minutes at 0.12 miles, a walk in clinic is 4 minutes at 0.20 miles, and the nearest staffing office is 5 minutes at 0.24 miles. Counting every category, 22 places sit within a 5 minute walk. Its one real gap is laundry at 19 minutes and 0.89 miles.
- Which house is closest to a laundromat?
- 676 Shoup Ave W, at 0.01 miles, which is next door and under a minute on foot. From 212 4th Ave E the nearest laundry place is 19 minutes and 0.89 miles. From 2091 4th Ave E it is 31 minutes and 1.42 miles.
- Which house has the biggest gaps?
- 2091 4th Ave E. The data shows 0 work category places in walking range, 3 health places, the nearest grocery store at 15 minutes and 0.69 miles, and laundry at 31 minutes and 1.42 miles. Only 1 place of any kind sits within a 5 minute walk, so it is the most dependent on a ride of the three.
- Is Realcovery a treatment center?
- No. Realcovery Idaho operates men's sober living houses. Sober living is housing. It is not treatment, not detox, not medical care, and not a clinical program.
- There is a clinic one minute from 676 Shoup Ave W. Is that part of the program?
- No. That clinic is 0.06 miles from the house, and that is a fact about the street. Realcovery does not operate it, is not affiliated with it, and provides no clinical services of any kind.
- Can a resident walk to a bank?
- From 212 4th Ave E, yes: 8 money category places in range with the nearest bank at 3 minutes and 0.12 miles. From 2091 4th Ave E, yes: 8 in range with the nearest bank at 8 minutes and 0.37 miles. From 676 Shoup Ave W, no: only 2 money places are in range and both are bitcoin ATMs, the nearest at 14 minutes and 0.64 miles.
- Is there a bus?
- Nothing in this data measures a fixed route transit stop at any of the three addresses. The transportation category returns 0 places for 212 4th Ave E, 1 for 2091 4th Ave E at 23 minutes, and 1 for 676 Shoup Ave W at 3 minutes, and those two entries are a trucking company and a driver's license office.
- Which house is closest to a library?
- 212 4th Ave E, at 1 minute and 0.04 miles. From 2091 4th Ave E no library appears in range. From 676 Shoup Ave W the nearest place labeled a library is a little free library at 17 minutes and 0.78 miles.
- How should I read the category counts?
- As a rough measure of density, never as convenience on its own. All three houses show 8 grocery and convenience places in range, yet the nearest one is 3 minutes from 212 4th Ave E, 5 minutes from 676 Shoup Ave W, and 15 minutes from 2091 4th Ave E. Eight is also the highest count that appears anywhere in this data, so an 8 means at least eight rather than exactly eight.
- How far is the nearest clinic from each house?
- 676 Shoup Ave W has 8 health category places in range with the nearest at 1 minute and 0.06 miles, 212 4th Ave E has 8 with the nearest at 4 minutes and 0.20 miles, and 2091 4th Ave E has 3 with the nearest at 5 minutes and 0.25 miles. Realcovery provides none of that care, and which clinic a resident uses is a question for him and his own providers.
Walking times and distances were measured on September 2, 2026 from each house address, using the Overture Maps places dataset, release 2026-08-19.0, and the public OSRM walking router. Businesses open, close and move, so treat every figure as of that date.