Photo: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: · CC BY-SA 3.0Malta draws about half of Saco’s working residents
0% of workers work from home, where Montana as a whole has 12%. Hardly any work in Saco itself; outside it, Malta draws the most (45%, 25 miles). Working residents average 33 minutes each way, next to 19 for Montana and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Saco
On a workday 49 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Saco on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.37 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 Saco goes to work
Where Saco clocks in
45% of workers
6% 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.
What the 18 jobs in Saco are
18 jobs are based in Saco.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Saco, 2013 → 2023: 57 → 18. 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 Saco’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Saco takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Saco workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 78 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Saco
About 35% 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 Saco: questions
What is the median household income in Saco?
$48,500 (±$11,073) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Saco?
27.1%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Saco?
33 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Saco work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Saco without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Saco, from the people who make the trip.
More of Saco
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.