About half of Worden’s working residents commute to Billings
0% of workers have no commute at all, where Montana as a whole has 12%. Only 8% work in Worden; the top destination outside it is Billings (50%, 22 miles). The average commute takes 29 minutes each way; Montana averages 19, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Worden and work: the main findings
More than half of Worden works in Billings
128 working residents, 50%, have their main job in Billings, 22 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in Worden itself. The commute map ↓
Worden workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 19 across Montana. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Worden workers work from home
Only 0% 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 258 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Worden’s working residents head each day
Where Worden clocks in
50% of workers
5% 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.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Worden
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Worden workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 220 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Worden
On a workday 238 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 280 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Worden on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 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 Worden
300 jobs are based in Worden.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Worden, 2013 → 2023: 266 → 300. 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 Worden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Worden
About 15% 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 Worden: questions
What is the poverty rate in Worden?
3.1%, against 11.5% across Montana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Worden?
29 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Montana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Worden work?
8% work in town.
Can you get around Worden without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Worden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Worden
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.