A job hub: Centerville has 6.2 jobs per working resident, and 68 people come in to work
Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 12% for Montana as a whole. Employers in Centerville report 68 jobs, and 11 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Centerville itself; outside it, Great Falls draws the most (27%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Centerville’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 11 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 80 people are in Centerville on a workday afternoon, 248% more 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 daily trip into Centerville
Where Centerville clocks in
27% of workers
9% 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.
Centerville is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Centerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Centerville
of Centerville workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 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.
The commute from Centerville, by distance
About 40% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Centerville workers work outside Montana. The job records count 18% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Centerville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Centerville?
21.7%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Centerville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Great Falls (27%, 11 mi), Idaho Falls (9%, 273 mi), Belt (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Centerville 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 Centerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Centerville
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.