Northeast Entrance Station · Photo: National Park Service inventory · Public domainMaking a living in Silver Gate
Silver Gate has 12 jobs for 13 working residents. At home: 92% of workers have no commute at all (Montana 12%). Hardly any work in Silver Gate itself; outside it, Gardiner draws the most (38%, 37 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Silver Gate for work, and who comes in
On a workday 13 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 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 (0.92 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.
Where the trip to work from Silver Gate ends
Where Silver Gate clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Silver Gate
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Silver Gate, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 12. 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 Silver Gate’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Silver Gate
of Silver Gate workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3 commuters (the 92% 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 Silver Gate commutes less than 51 miles
About 54% 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.
Around Silver Gate: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Silver Gate workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Gate | – | — | — | — | — |
| Cooke City | under 8% | — | — | 5 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cooke City: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Silver Gate’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Silver Gate workers work outside Montana. The job records count 15% 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 Silver Gate: questions
What is the poverty rate in Silver Gate?
0.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Silver Gate work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gardiner (38%, 37 mi), Bozeman (15%, 69 mi), Sugar City (8%, 118 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Silver Gate 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 Silver Gate, from the people who make the trip.
More of Silver Gate
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.