Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Roundup’s household incomes are lower than in 77% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D: better than 7% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability A: more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 16 minutes each way (Montana 19, U.S. 26). About two in five work in Roundup; the top destination outside it is Billings (19%, 46 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Roundup, in brief
Roundup’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Roundup is Billings, 46 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (140) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Most jobs in Roundup go to people who live here
Of the 671 jobs based in Roundup, 47% are held by Roundup residents. In most towns, people from elsewhere hold most of the local jobs. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 748 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Roundup’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Roundup is better than 7% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Roundup’s grade up ($57,847, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.7%) is left out: Roundup’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Roundup could be anywhere from D− to C.
Half of Roundup commutes less than 11 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 22% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 433 residents head out to work, 315 work right here, and 356 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
19% of working residents work in Billings
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Roundup clocks in
19% of workers
3% of workers
1% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 671 jobs in Roundup are
671 jobs are based in Roundup. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Roundup’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roundup, 2013 → 2023: 670 → 671. 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.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Montana
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roundup workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 716 commuters (the 16% who work from home are left out). Across Montana: 81% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Roundup is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Roundup is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.3% across Montana, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 851 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 12.1% of Roundup households have no vehicle (Montana 4.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Roundup’s commuters take a bus or train.
Roundup is 4,611th of 5,148 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Roundup, the top three, the last and three more from Montana.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 505 | King Arthur Park MT | 1,992 | $109K | 7.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 592 | Manhattan MT | 2,073 | $88K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 822 | Big Sky MT | 2,445 | $139K | 4.7% | 1.4% | 68% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,609 | Girard IL | 1,768 | $50K | 31.0% | 2.4% | 8% | D |
| 4,610 | Delhi LA | 2,519 | $52K | 25.1% | 8.2% | 33% | D |
| 4,611 | Roundup MT | 2,075 | $58K | 16.6% | 10.7% | 42% | D |
| 4,612 | Badin NC | 1,915 | $53K | 19.6% | 7.4% | <1% | D |
| 4,613 | Sisseton SD | 2,413 | $49K | 18.7% | 6.1% | 51% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Roundup and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Camp Three (1%). Darker towns draw more of Roundup’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Roundup workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roundup | – | D | A | 16 min | $57,847 |
| Camp Three | 1% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Camp Three: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Roundup: questions
What is the median household income in Roundup?
$57,847 (±$15,475) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roundup?
16.6%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roundup?
16 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roundup work?
42% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Billings (19%, 46 mi), Bozeman (3%, 132 mi), Helena (1%, 166 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Roundup walkable?
Roundup is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roundup without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roundup, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roundup
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.