Photo: Chris06 · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Ulm works elsewhere
Home is the office for 5% of workers; Montana has 12%. Ulm has 73 jobs, against 189 working residents. Hardly any stay in Ulm for work; outside it, Great Falls is the main destination (42%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Ulm by day
On a workday 189 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 73 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Ulm on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer 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 places Ulm commutes to
Where Ulm clocks in
42% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
What Ulm’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ulm, 2013 → 2023: 49 → 73. 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 Ulm’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Ulm
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ulm workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 408 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 far Ulm goes to work
About 32% 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 Ulm: questions
What is the median household income in Ulm?
$102,708 (±$31,826) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ulm?
6.9%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ulm?
27 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ulm work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Great Falls (42%, 12 mi), Helena (6%, 62 mi), Fairfield (3%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ulm without a car?
12% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ulm, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ulm
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.