Sleeping Buffalo Rock · Photo: Robstutz · CC BY-SA 3.0About two in five of Sleeping Buffalo’s working residents commute to Whitewater
There are 8 jobs in Sleeping Buffalo, against 7 working residents. Home is the office for 33% of workers; Montana has 12%. Hardly any work in Sleeping Buffalo; the top destination outside it is Whitewater (43%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Sleeping Buffalo for work, and who comes in
On a workday 7 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 10 people are in Sleeping Buffalo on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 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.
The towns that employ Sleeping Buffalo’s residents
Where Sleeping Buffalo clocks in
14% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Sleeping Buffalo
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 Sleeping Buffalo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Sleeping Buffalo
of Sleeping Buffalo workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4 commuters (the 33% 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.
Where in the region Sleeping Buffalo works
About 29% 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 Sleeping Buffalo: questions
What is the poverty rate in Sleeping Buffalo?
44.4%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Sleeping Buffalo work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Sleeping Buffalo 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 Sleeping Buffalo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sleeping Buffalo
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.