Loneman Fire Lookout · Photo: National Park Service inventory · Public domainWith 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Pinnacle works elsewhere
Pinnacle has 1 jobs for 16 working residents. Hardly any work in Pinnacle itself; outside it, Columbia Falls draws the most (13%, 25 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 12% for Montana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pinnacle by day and by night
On a workday 16 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 33 people are in Pinnacle on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Commuting out of Pinnacle: the destinations
Where Pinnacle clocks in
13% 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.
Most jobs in Pinnacle are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Pinnacle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pinnacle
of Pinnacle workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11 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.
Half of Pinnacle commutes less than 25 miles
About 25% 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 Pinnacle: questions
What is the median household income in Pinnacle?
$58,977 (±$14,388) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pinnacle?
20.8%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pinnacle work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbia Falls (13%, 25 mi), Kalispell (13%, 33 mi), Hungry Horse (13%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pinnacle 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 Pinnacle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinnacle
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.