Thornwood School · Photo: Jaatulipalo · CC BY 4.0Reserve at work: jobs, income and the commute
8 jobs are based in Reserve for 12 working residents. 0% of workers work from home (Montana 12%). Hardly any work in Reserve; the top destination outside it is Plentywood (25%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Reserve by day and by night
On a workday 12 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 15 people are in Reserve on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.67 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 people from Reserve work
Where Reserve clocks in
25% of workers
17% 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.
The kinds of work in Reserve
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 Reserve’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Reserve
of Reserve workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4 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.
Miles to work from Reserve
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Reserve workers work outside Montana. The job records count 17% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Reserve: questions
What is the median household income in Reserve?
$53,750 (±$35,026) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Reserve?
31.6%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Reserve work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plentywood (25%, 13 mi), Westby (17%, 26 mi), Kalispell (8%, 453 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Reserve 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 Reserve, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reserve
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.