Photo: Spend A Day Touring, LLC · CC BY-SA 2.0Troy draws 476 commuters a day, with 2.6 jobs for every working resident
About one in four stay in Troy for work; outside it, Libby is the main destination (14%, 16 miles). There are 524 jobs in Troy, and 200 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 12% for Montana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Troy, in a few figures
Troy is where the jobs are
Troy has 524 jobs, 2.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Troy workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Montana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 200 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Troy
On a workday 152 residents head out to work and 48 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Troy on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Troy commutes less than 17 miles
About 34% 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.
From Troy, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Troy workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 241 commuters (the 4% 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 Troy’s workers come from
Where Troy 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.
Most jobs in Troy are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Troy, 2013 → 2023: 495 → 524. 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 Troy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Troy: questions
What is the median household income in Troy?
$32,250 (±$10,258) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Troy?
39.8%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Troy?
22 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Troy work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Libby (14%, 16 mi), Kalispell (6%, 74 mi), Yaak (6%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Troy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Troy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Troy
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.