Photo: Montanabw · CC BY-SA 4.0Lodge Grass draws 138 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
Working residents average 23 minutes each way, next to 19 for Montana and 26 for the U.S. Employers in Lodge Grass report 149 jobs, against 73 working residents. About one in seven work in Lodge Grass itself; outside it, Crow Agency draws the most (30%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Lodge Grass
On a workday 62 residents head out to work and 11 work right here.
About 500 people are in Lodge Grass on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Lodge Grass’s workers come from
Where Lodge Grass clocks in
11% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lodge Grass, 2013 → 2023: 148 → 149. 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 Lodge Grass’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Lodge Grass, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lodge Grass workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 111 commuters (the 8% 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.
Lodge Grass’ commute, mile by mile
About 34% 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 Lodge Grass: questions
What is the median household income in Lodge Grass?
$49,375 (±$15,596) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lodge Grass?
39.9%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lodge Grass?
23 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lodge Grass work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Crow Agency (30%, 20 mi), Billings (11%, 66 mi), Hardin (4%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lodge Grass without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lodge Grass, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lodge Grass
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.