Monarch has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 1 jobs in Monarch for 3 working residents. Hardly any stay in Monarch for work; outside it, Belt is the main destination (33%, 20 miles). 22.7% of residents are in poverty, against 11.5% across Montana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Monarch
On a workday 3 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
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 Monarch goes to work
Where Monarch clocks in
33% of workers
33% 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.
Monarch is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monarch, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 1. 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 Monarch’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Monarch’s workers travel
About 33% 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 Monarch: questions
What is the poverty rate in Monarch?
22.7%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Monarch work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belt (33%, 20 mi), Kalispell (33%, 180 mi), Great Falls (33%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Monarch, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monarch
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.