Photo: Eric Friedebach · CC BY 3.0Work means Billings for about two in three of Broadview’s working residents
The trip to work takes 34 minutes on average, where Montana has 19 and the U.S. 26. For 4% of workers, the job is at home, where Montana as a whole has 12%. Only 2% work in Broadview itself; outside it, Billings draws the most (64%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Broadview on a workday
On a workday 65 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 79 people are in Broadview on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.14 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Commuting out of Broadview: the destinations
Where Broadview clocks in
64% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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.
Inside Broadview’s 9 jobs
9 jobs are based in Broadview.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Broadview, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 9. 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 Broadview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Broadview: about 34 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Broadview workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 94 commuters (the 4% 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.
Broadview’s commute, mile by mile
About 15% 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 Broadview: questions
What is the median household income in Broadview?
$78,438 (±$28,357) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Broadview?
8.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Broadview?
34 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Broadview work?
2% work in town.
Can you get around Broadview 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 Broadview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Broadview
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.