Fort Connah Site · Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Kicking Horse draws 49 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
0% of workers work from home, next to 12% for Montana as a whole. There are 49 jobs in Kicking Horse for 28 working residents. Hardly any stay in Kicking Horse for work; outside it, Polson is the main destination (25%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kicking Horse fills up on a workday
On a workday 28 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 80 people are in Kicking Horse on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Kicking Horse
Where Kicking Horse clocks in
25% of workers
21% of workers
11% 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.
Kicking Horse is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kicking Horse, 2014 → 2024: 31 → 49. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kicking Horse’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Kicking Horse
of Kicking Horse workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Kicking Horse
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
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 2024, 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 Kicking Horse: questions
What is the poverty rate in Kicking Horse?
0.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Kicking Horse work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Polson (25%, 16 mi), Ronan (21%, 5 mi), Missoula (11%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Kicking Horse 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 Kicking Horse, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kicking Horse
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.