Photo: MicaelaYoung · CC BY-SA 3.0Heart Butte has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any stay in Heart Butte for work; outside it, East Glacier Park Village is the main destination (21%, 21 miles). Heart Butte has 3 jobs; 112 of its residents have a job. 4% of workers have no commute at all, against 12% across Montana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Heart Butte on a workday afternoon
On a workday 112 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 410 people are in Heart Butte on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
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 Heart Butte work
Where Heart Butte clocks in
21% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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 Heart Butte
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Heart Butte, 2013 → 2023: 114 → 3. 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 Heart Butte’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Heart Butte, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Heart Butte workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 134 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.
The commute from Heart Butte, by distance
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 Heart Butte: questions
What is the median household income in Heart Butte?
$31,389 (±$6,271) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Heart Butte?
47.1%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Heart Butte?
18 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Heart Butte work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are East Glacier Park Village (21%, 21 mi), Browning (8%, 20 mi), Valier (6%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Heart Butte without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Heart Butte, from the people who make the trip.
More of Heart Butte
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.