Photo: Travellers & Tinkers · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Brady works elsewhere
Employers in Brady report 11 jobs, and 53 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Brady for work; outside it, Conrad is the main destination (38%, 11 miles). The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average (Montana 19, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Brady, and who commutes in
On a workday 53 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 59 people are in Brady on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
The places Brady commutes to
Where Brady clocks in
38% of workers
11% of workers
6% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Brady
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brady, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 11. 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 Brady’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes each way, about the MT average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brady workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 commuters (the 10% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Brady
About 25% 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 Brady: questions
What is the median household income in Brady?
$68,750 (±$37,495) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brady?
29.7%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brady?
18 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brady work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Conrad (38%, 11 mi), Great Falls (11%, 44 mi), Helena (6%, 99 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Brady 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 Brady, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brady
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.