Carter Bridge · Photo: Robert Amundson · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Wineglass works elsewhere
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 12% across Montana. There are 25 jobs in Wineglass; 106 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Wineglass itself; outside it, Livingston draws the most (25%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wineglass by day and by night
On a workday 106 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere.
About 95 people are in Wineglass on a workday afternoon, 46% 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 Wineglass commutes to
Where Wineglass clocks in
25% of workers
21% of workers
5% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 64% of the jobs in Wineglass
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wineglass, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 25. 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 Wineglass’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Wineglass takes about 58 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 18.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wineglass workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 89 commuters (the 0% 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 Wineglass works
About 28% 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 Wineglass: questions
What is the median household income in Wineglass?
$116,114 (±$69,811) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,509 across Montana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wineglass?
0.0%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wineglass?
58 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wineglass work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Livingston (25%, 4 mi), Bozeman (21%, 21 mi), Missoula (5%, 184 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wineglass without a car?
18% of commuters take transit and 54% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wineglass, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wineglass
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.