Billings draws about two in five of Edgar’s working residents
Hardly any work in Edgar; the top destination outside it is Billings (41%, 27 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Montana as a whole has 12%. A typical one-way commute lasts 17 minutes, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Edgar
On a workday 46 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere.
About 50 people are in Edgar on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
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 Edgar goes to work
Where Edgar clocks in
41% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Edgar
36 jobs are based in Edgar.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edgar, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 36. 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 Edgar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Edgar takes about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edgar workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 29 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.
The distance from Edgar to work
About 26% 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 Edgar: questions
What is the poverty rate in Edgar?
6.7%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edgar?
17 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edgar work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Edgar 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 Edgar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edgar
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.