Work means Lewistown for about two in five of Grass Range’s working residents
2% of workers work from home; Montana has 12%. Hardly any work in Grass Range; the top destination outside it is Lewistown (43%, 31 miles). The trip to work takes 31 minutes on average (Montana 19, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 28 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 35 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 (1.25 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.
The places Grass Range commutes to
Where Grass Range clocks in
43% of workers
4% 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 35 jobs based in Grass Range
35 jobs are based in Grass Range.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grass Range, 2013 → 2023: 102 → 35. 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 Grass Range’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Grass Range, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grass Range workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 65 commuters (the 2% 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.
Where in the region Grass Range works
About 29% 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 Grass Range: questions
What is the median household income in Grass Range?
$20,000 (±$12,028) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grass Range?
39.2%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grass Range?
31 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grass Range work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Grass Range without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grass Range, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grass Range
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.