Kila has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
68 jobs are based in Kila, against 166 working residents. Only 2% work in Kila itself; outside it, Kalispell draws the most (36%, 10 miles). Home is the office for 5% of workers, where Montana as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kila by day and by night
On a workday 163 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 65 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Kila on a workday afternoon, 26% 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 the trip to work from Kila ends
Where Kila clocks in
7% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Kila
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kila, 2013 → 2023: 55 → 68. 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 Kila’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Kila: about 17 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kila workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 156 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Kila
About 19% 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 Kila: questions
What is the median household income in Kila?
$96,607 (±$57,077) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kila?
8.8%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kila?
17 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kila work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kalispell (36%, 10 mi), Whitefish (7%, 23 mi), Missoula (5%, 89 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kila 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 Kila, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kila
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.