Work & commute · Cooke

Work & commute in Cooke, MT

Most working residents leave Cooke for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Gardiner (41%), Corwin Springs (13%) and Harlowton (2%). Half commute less than 40 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 46 working residents

Typical commute

40 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

5 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 43 Cooke residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 56 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cooke.

43live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

56work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cooke goes to work

Gardiner40.4 mi away

41%19

Corwin Springs44 mi away

13%6

Cooke City (in town)right here

7%3

Harlowton98.1 mi away

2%1

Livingston54.5 mi away

2%1

Bozeman72 mi away

2%1

Billings84.7 mi away

2%1

Emigrant48.3 mi away

2%1

Pray45.2 mi away

2%1

Big Sky71.1 mi away

2%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%11

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Cooke commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

69%

24%

7%Under 10 mi

0%10–24 mi

69%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cooke is balanced between jobs and homes

1.28jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.28 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cooke are

59 jobs are based in Cooke. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cooke’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cooke

59 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less47%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month14%

Jobs Cooke residents hold

46 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month37%

+228%

Jobs based in Cooke, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 59. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.