Work & commute · Lewistown Heights

Work & commute in Lewistown Heights, MT

Most working residents leave Lewistown Heights for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Lewistown (48%), Billings (13%) and Bozeman (4%). Half commute less than 3 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 168 working residents

Typical commute

3 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 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 166 Lewistown Heights residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lewistown Heights.

166live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

31work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lewistown Heights goes to work

Lewistown2.1 mi away

48%80

Billings99.3 mi away

13%21

Bozeman122.4 mi away

4%6

Winifred33.7 mi away

2%3

Miles City178.2 mi away

2%3

Moore12.6 mi away

1%2

Big Timber88.8 mi away

1%2

Roundup62 mi away

1%2

Hardin128.1 mi away

1%2

Belgrade120.8 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%45

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

How far

How far Lewistown Heights commutes

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

56%

36%

56%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lewistown Heights is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.20 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Lewistown Heights are

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

Jobs based in Lewistown Heights

33 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities58%

Services (health, schools, offices…)18%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month55%

Over $3,333 a month24%

Jobs Lewistown Heights residents hold

168 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−23%

Jobs based in Lewistown Heights, 2013 → 2023: 43 → 33. 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.