For more than half of its working residents, Bonner-West Riverside is a commute to Missoula
Measured by household income, Bonner-West Riverside is behind 71% of U.S. towns. Bonner-West Riverside grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 4% stay in Bonner-West Riverside for work; outside it, Missoula is the main destination (61%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Bonner-West Riverside stands out on work
More than half of Bonner-West Riverside works in Missoula
421 working residents, 61%, have their main job in Missoula, 6.5 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Bonner-West Riverside itself. The commute map ↓
Most Bonner-West Riverside residents work close to home
71% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Bonner-West Riverside makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Bonner-West Riverside are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bonner-West Riverside residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 13%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 691 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Bonner-West Riverside earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Bonner-West Riverside is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Bonner-West Riverside’s grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Bonner-West Riverside’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bonner-West Riverside could be anywhere from D to B+.
Where the trip to work from Bonner-West Riverside ends
Where Bonner-West Riverside clocks in
61% of workers
2% of workers
2% 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.
How far it is to work from Bonner-West Riverside
About 17% 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.
Bonner-West Riverside works in goods: 58% of its jobs
740 jobs are based in Bonner-West Riverside.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bonner-West Riverside, 2013 → 2023: 403 → 740. 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 Bonner-West Riverside’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Bonner-West Riverside, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 663 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 712 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.07 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Getting to work from Bonner-West Riverside takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bonner-West Riverside workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 879 commuters (the 8% 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.
For most of Bonner-West Riverside, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bonner-West Riverside is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 6.3% across Montana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 951 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 94% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 94% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 63% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.8% of Bonner-West Riverside households have no vehicle (Montana 4.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bonner-West Riverside’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Bonner-West Riverside is 3,349th among 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 473 | King Arthur Park MT | 1,992 | $109K | 7.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 549 | Manhattan MT | 2,073 | $88K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,254 | Three Forks MT | 1,920 | $80K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 11% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,347 | Worcester WI | 1,546 | $68K | 7.0% | 2.5% | 4% | C |
| 3,348 | Brazeau WI | 1,381 | $73K | 8.6% | 6.7% | 1% | C |
| 3,349 | Bonner-West Riverside MT | 1,563 | $62K | 14.5% | 0.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,350 | Clarksville IA | 1,225 | $63K | 9.1% | 2.3% | 7% | C |
| 3,351 | Wood River NE | 1,169 | $75K | 15.6% | 0.4% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bonner-West Riverside, the top three, the last and three more from Montana.
Bonner-West Riverside and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bonner-West Riverside workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonner-West Riverside | – | C | B+ | 21 min | $62,039 |
| Piltzville | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Piltzville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bonner-West Riverside’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Bonner-West Riverside: questions
What is the median household income in Bonner-West Riverside?
$62,039 (±$17,139) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bonner-West Riverside?
14.5%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bonner-West Riverside?
21 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bonner-West Riverside work?
4% work in town.
Is Bonner-West Riverside walkable?
Bonner-West Riverside is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 12.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bonner-West Riverside without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 94% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bonner-West Riverside, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bonner-West Riverside
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.