A job hub: Cyr has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 47 people come in to work
Employers in Cyr report 48 jobs; 25 of its residents have a job. Only 4% work in Cyr; the top destination outside it is Missoula (28%, 28 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Montana as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Cyr on a workday
On a workday 24 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 130 people are in Cyr on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 towns that send workers to Cyr
Where Cyr clocks in
28% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Cyr
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 Cyr’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 87 minutes each way for Cyr’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 27.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cyr workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 73 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Cyr
About 32% 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 Cyr: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cyr?
12.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cyr?
87 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cyr work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Missoula (28%, 28 mi), Superior (24%, 20 mi), Great Falls (8%, 158 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cyr 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 Cyr, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cyr
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.