Most of Bear Dance commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
21 jobs are based in Bear Dance, and 64 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Bear Dance for work; outside it, Kalispell is the main destination (27%, 26 miles). Home is the office for 58% of workers, where Montana as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Bear Dance
On a workday 64 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Bear Dance on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Bear Dance’s working residents head each day
Where Bear Dance clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
Goods, not services: 62% of the jobs in Bear Dance
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bear Dance, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 21. 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 Bear Dance’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bear Dance
of Bear Dance workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 commuters (the 58% 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.
How many miles Bear Dance commutes
About 23% 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 Bear Dance: questions
What is the median household income in Bear Dance?
$84,732 (±$8,935) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bear Dance?
19.5%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bear Dance work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kalispell (27%, 26 mi), Bigfork (13%, 13 mi), Missoula (9%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bear Dance without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bear Dance, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bear Dance
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.