Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument · Photo: 1025wil · CC BY-SA 3.0Crow Agency has 3.2 jobs for every working resident: 735 people commute in to work
Measured by household income, Crow Agency is behind 85% of U.S. towns. Crow Agency has 852 jobs, against 263 working residents. For jobs and income Crow Agency is near the bottom of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Crow Agency
Crow Agency has far more jobs than workers
Crow Agency has 852 jobs, 3.2 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Crow Agency and Hardin trade workers both ways
Hardin is the top workplace for Crow Agency residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Crow Agency come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Crow Agency pay better than its residents’ jobs
57% of the jobs based in Crow Agency pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 39% of the jobs Crow Agency residents hold. 86% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Crow Agency. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 263 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Crow Agency’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Crow Agency is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Crow Agency’s grade.
Unemployment (32.4%) is left out: Crow Agency’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Crow Agency stays D−.
Who works in Crow Agency, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 146 residents head out to work and 117 work right here.
About 2,800 people are in Crow Agency on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Who travels to work in Crow Agency, and from where
Where Crow Agency clocks in
17% of workers
9% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Crow Agency
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crow Agency, 2013 → 2023: 291 → 852. 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 Crow Agency’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Crow Agency: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crow Agency workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far Crow Agency goes to work
About 23% 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.
Few in Crow Agency walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.3% across Montana, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 476 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.7% of Crow Agency households have no vehicle (Montana 4.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crow Agency’s commuters take a bus or train.
Crow Agency next to U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 571 | King Arthur Park MT | 1,992 | $109K | 7.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 670 | Manhattan MT | 2,073 | $88K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 929 | Big Sky MT | 2,445 | $139K | 4.7% | 1.4% | 68% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,529 | Blackville SC | 1,925 | $22K | 32.9% | 1.5% | 6% | D− |
| 5,530 | East Millinocket ME | 1,567 | $42K | 21.7% | 6.3% | 13% | D− |
| 5,531 | Crow Agency MT | 2,192 | $52K | 39.2% | 32.4% | 44% | D− |
| 5,532 | Dixon NM | 1,623 | $54K | 37.6% | 10.4% | 1% | D− |
| 5,533 | East Brewton AL | 2,251 | $36K | 23.7% | 23.4% | 5% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Crow Agency, the top three, the last and three more from Montana.
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 Crow Agency: questions
What is the median household income in Crow Agency?
$52,339 (±$7,083) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crow Agency?
39.2%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crow Agency?
13 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crow Agency work?
44% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hardin (17%, 12 mi), Billings (9%, 54 mi), Lodge Grass (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crow Agency walkable?
Crow Agency is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crow Agency without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crow Agency, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crow Agency
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.