Photo: Benjamin Courteau · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Stevensville have lower incomes than those in 74% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 12% for Montana as a whole. 13.6% of residents live below the poverty line; Montana has 11.5%. Jobs and income earn Stevensville C; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Stevensville
28% of Stevensville works in Missoula
232 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Missoula, 26 miles away. That’s 3 times as many as work in Stevensville itself. The commute map ↓
Stevensville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 24 minutes each way, against 19 across Montana. Over a year that’s about 184 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 842 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Stevensville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Stevensville is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Stevensville’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Stevensville could be anywhere from D to B+.
28% of working residents work in Missoula
Where Stevensville clocks in
28% of workers
11% of workers
2% 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.
About 24 minutes to work from Stevensville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stevensville workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 906 commuters (the 5% 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.
How a workday changes Stevensville
On a workday 747 residents head out to work, 95 work right here, and 774 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 (1.03 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 kinds of work in Stevensville
869 jobs are based in Stevensville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stevensville, 2013 → 2023: 655 → 869. 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 Stevensville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Stevensville commutes
About 18% 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.
Stevensville 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, Stevensville is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.3% across Montana, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 950 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). 0.8% of Stevensville households have no vehicle (Montana 4.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Stevensville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Stevensville is 3,445th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 526 | King Arthur Park MT | 1,992 | $109K | 7.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 617 | Manhattan MT | 2,073 | $88K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 852 | Big Sky MT | 2,445 | $139K | 4.7% | 1.4% | 68% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,443 | East Gaffney SC | 2,824 | $25K | 33.8% | 2.8% | 4% | C |
| 3,444 | Girard KS | 2,476 | $40K | 16.1% | 2.2% | 27% | C |
| 3,445 | Stevensville MT | 2,259 | $60K | 13.6% | 3.5% | 11% | C |
| 3,446 | Willshire Township OH | 1,637 | $56K | 8.6% | 2.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,447 | East Bethlehem Township PA | 2,238 | $68K | 21.3% | 3.5% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Stevensville, the top three, the last and three more from Montana.
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 Stevensville: questions
What is the median household income in Stevensville?
$60,096 (±$16,444) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stevensville?
13.6%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stevensville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stevensville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Missoula (28%, 26 mi), Hamilton (11%, 18 mi), Helena (2%, 98 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stevensville walkable?
Stevensville is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stevensville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stevensville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stevensville
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.