West Fork Ranger Station · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 4.0Conner has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers, against 12% across Montana. Employers in Conner report 24 jobs, and 51 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Conner for work; outside it, Missoula is the main destination (16%, 66 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Conner, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 51 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Conner on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Where people from Conner work
Where Conner clocks in
16% of workers
12% of workers
10% 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.
67% of the jobs in Conner pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conner, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 24. 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 Conner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Conner
of Conner workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 28 commuters (the 28% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Conner
About 41% 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 Conner: questions
What is the poverty rate in Conner?
11.6%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Conner work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Missoula (16%, 66 mi), Darby (12%, 7 mi), Hamilton (10%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Conner 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 Conner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conner
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.