Moncure Tipi · Photo: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Lame Deer for about half of Busby’s working residents
0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 12% for Montana as a whole. Hardly any work in Busby itself; outside it, Lame Deer draws the most (50%, 19 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 17 minutes, where Montana has 19 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Busby by day
On a workday 110 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Busby on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.01 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.
The places Busby commutes to
Where Busby clocks in
50% of workers
4% 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.
Busby is a services town
1 jobs are based in Busby.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Busby, 2013 → 2023: 5 → 1. 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 Busby’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Busby: about 17 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Busby workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 218 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region Busby works
About 28% 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 Busby: questions
What is the median household income in Busby?
$46,071 (±$32,848) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Busby?
28.4%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Busby?
17 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Busby work?
1% work in town.
Can you get around Busby without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Busby, from the people who make the trip.
More of Busby
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.