Skyland Camp-Bowman Lake Ranger Station · Photo: National Park Service inventory · Public domainA job hub: Turner has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 42 people come in to work
There are 43 jobs in Turner; 17 of its residents have a job. Only 6% work in Turner itself; outside it, Harlem draws the most (35%, 28 miles). The average commute takes 24 minutes each way, where Montana has 19 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Turner, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 16 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 95 people are in Turner on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
The towns that send workers to Turner
Where Turner clocks in
35% of workers
12% 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.
Jobs in Turner: what the 43 are
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 Turner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Turner, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Turner workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 36 commuters (the 14% 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 many miles Turner commutes
About 47% 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 Turner: questions
What is the median household income in Turner?
$55,179 (±$18,448) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Turner?
0.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Turner?
24 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Turner work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harlem (35%, 28 mi), Chester (12%, 119 mi), Havre (12%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Turner without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Turner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Turner
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.