Cottonwood Creek Bridge · Photo: Robstutz · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Miles City for more than half of Ismay’s working residents
0% of workers work from home, next to 12% for Montana as a whole. Hardly any stay in Ismay for work; outside it, Miles City is the main destination (55%, 50 miles). Ismay has 7 jobs for 11 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Ismay, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 11 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 17 people are in Ismay on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.64 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Ismay: the destinations
Where Ismay clocks in
55% of workers
9% 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.
86% of the jobs in Ismay make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ismay, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 7. 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 Ismay’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ismay
of Ismay workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1 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.
How many miles Ismay commutes
About 64% 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 Ismay: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ismay?
0.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ismay work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Ismay 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 Ismay, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ismay
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.