Photo: J.B. Chandler · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Dupuyer earns its living
4% of workers have no commute at all, next to 12% for Montana as a whole. Hardly any stay in Dupuyer for work; outside it, Valier is the main destination (23%, 13 miles). Commuters spend 29 minutes getting to work on average, next to 19 for Montana and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 22 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Dupuyer’s working residents head each day
Where Dupuyer clocks in
23% 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.
In Dupuyer, services account for most jobs
19 jobs are based in Dupuyer.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dupuyer, 2014 → 2024: 4 → 19. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dupuyer’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Dupuyer, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dupuyer workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 53 commuters (the 4% 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.
Miles to work from Dupuyer
About 62% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Dupuyer: questions
What is the median household income in Dupuyer?
$110,000 (±$47,639) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dupuyer?
3.1%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dupuyer?
29 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dupuyer work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valier (23%, 13 mi), Babb (14%, 66 mi), Great Falls (9%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Dupuyer without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dupuyer, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dupuyer
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.