North Entrance Road Historic District · Photo: Yellowstone National Park · Public domainWork, pay and getting to work in Gardiner
Working residents average 19 minutes each way (Montana 19, U.S. 26). About one in three stay in Gardiner for work; outside it, Corwin Springs is the main destination (8%, 6 miles). There are 489 jobs in Gardiner for 374 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Gardiner by day
On a workday 246 residents head out to work, 128 work right here, and 361 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Gardiner on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.31 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 people from Gardiner work
Where Gardiner clocks in
5% of workers
5% 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 Gardiner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gardiner, 2013 → 2023: 384 → 489. 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 Gardiner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 19 minutes each way, about the MT average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gardiner workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 303 commuters (the 11% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Gardiner
About 25% 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 Gardiner: questions
What is the median household income in Gardiner?
$60,598 (±$25,139) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gardiner?
21.8%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gardiner?
19 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gardiner work?
34% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corwin Springs (8%, 6 mi), Livingston (5%, 43 mi), Cooke City (5%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gardiner 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 Gardiner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gardiner
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.