Photo: Jbenny99 · CC BY-SA 4.0About half of Alzada’s working residents commute to Ekalaka
Hardly any stay in Alzada for work; outside it, Ekalaka is the main destination (50%, 60 miles). Home is the office for 38% of workers, where Montana as a whole has 12%. Alzada has 17 jobs; 10 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Alzada by day and by night
On a workday 10 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 20 people are in Alzada on a workday afternoon, 54% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Alzada, and from where
Where Alzada clocks in
50% of workers
20% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alzada, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 17. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Alzada’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Alzada
of Alzada workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5 commuters (the 38% who work from home are left out). Across Montana: 81% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Miles to work from Alzada
About 89% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Alzada: questions
What is the poverty rate in Alzada?
46.2%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Alzada work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Alzada without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Alzada, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alzada
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.