DeBorgia Schoolhouse · Photo: Ltvine · CC BY-SA 3.0De Borgia has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
2 jobs are based in De Borgia, against 31 working residents. Hardly any work in De Borgia itself; outside it, Superior draws the most (19%, 23 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Montana has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in De Borgia: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 31 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11 people are in De Borgia on a workday afternoon, 73% 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 De Borgia work
Where De Borgia clocks in
10% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in De Borgia
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 De Borgia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in De Borgia
of De Borgia workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6 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.
How many miles De Borgia commutes
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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in De Borgia: questions
What is the poverty rate in De Borgia?
0.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in De Borgia work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Superior (19%, 23 mi), St. Regis (10%, 11 mi), Wallace (6%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around De Borgia 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 De Borgia, from the people who make the trip.
More of De Borgia
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.