Pine Butte School · Photo: Circletheblock · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Four Corners (0.5%) than in 97% of U.S. towns
Four Corners grades A− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns. About one in ten stay in Four Corners for work; outside it, Bozeman is the main destination (40%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Four Corners: the gist
Jobs in Four Corners have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Four Corners went from 2,095 in 2013 to 4,406 in 2023, +110%. The jobs ↓
Four Corners and Bozeman trade workers both ways
Bozeman is the top workplace for Four Corners residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Four Corners come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Four Corners residents work close to home
71% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Four Corners makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Four Corners are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Four Corners residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
Four Corners gains people on a workday
About 7,200 people are in Four Corners on a workday afternoon, 24% more than the 5,800 who live here: 4,100 come in to work and 2,700 head out. Day and night ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Four Corners’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Four Corners is better than 81% of U.S. towns, #2 of 42 in Montana. Unemployment holds Four Corners’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Four Corners could be anywhere from B to A.
Four Corners makes things: 39% of its jobs are in goods
4,406 jobs are based in Four Corners.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Four Corners, 2013 → 2023: 2,095 → 4,406. 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 Four Corners’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Four Corners ends
Where Four Corners clocks in
40% 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.
The distance from Four Corners to work
About 16% 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.
Four Corners by day and by night
On a workday 2,720 residents head out to work, 298 work right here, and 4,108 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Four Corners on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.46 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.
From Four Corners, about 17 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Four Corners workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,368 commuters (the 20% 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.
In Four Corners, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Four Corners is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns, #29 of 42 in Montana. Both inputs place Four Corners near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,954 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Four Corners households have no vehicle (Montana 4.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Four Corners’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,375 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,800, Four Corners comes 712th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 702 | Helena Valley Northeast MT | 4,659 | $141K | 5.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A− |
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| 710 | Chester Township NJ | 7,795 | $242K | 2.0% | 9.1% | 4% | A− |
| 711 | Hendron KY | 4,495 | $72K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 712 | Four Corners MT | 5,791 | $101K | 6.3% | 0.5% | 10% | A− |
| 713 | Rice Lake MN | 4,169 | $90K | 7.2% | 1.2% | 7% | A− |
| 714 | Ferris TX | 4,291 | $90K | 7.7% | 3.5% | 5% | A− |
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| 827 | Lolo MT | 4,314 | $86K | 5.3% | 0.8% | 7% | A− |
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| 1,233 | Helena Valley Northwest MT | 5,183 | $101K | 2.6% | 4.5% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,375 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Four Corners, the top three, the last and three more from Montana.
How Four Corners compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Gallatin Gateway (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Four Corners workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four Corners | – | A− | B+ | 17 min | $100,917 |
| Gallatin Gateway | 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Gallatin Gateway: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Four Corners’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Four Corners: questions
What is the median household income in Four Corners?
$100,917 (±$26,846) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Four Corners?
6.3%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Four Corners?
17 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Four Corners work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bozeman (40%, 6 mi), Big Sky (9%, 30 mi), Belgrade (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Four Corners walkable?
Four Corners is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Four Corners without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Four Corners, from the people who make the trip.
More of Four Corners
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.