Work & commute · Miles

Work & commute in Miles, MT

58% of Miles’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Billings (9%), Bozeman (1%) and Helena (1%). Half commute less than 1 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

58%

2,416 of 4,176 working residents

Typical commute

1 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

11 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 1,760 Miles residents head out of town to work, 2,416 work right here, and 1,941 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Miles.

1,760live here, work elsewhere

2,416live and work here

1,941work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Miles goes to work

Miles City (in town)right here

58%2,416

Billings136.8 mi away

9%366

Bozeman255 mi away

1%45

Helena294.1 mi away

1%42

Glendive72.1 mi away

1%41

Sidney119.9 mi away

1%37

Missoula389.6 mi away

1%30

Dickinson, ND148.1 mi away

1%26

Great Falls268.4 mi away

1%24

West Glendive70.6 mi away

1%24

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%1,125

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

How far

How far Miles commutes

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

68%

31%

68%Under 10 mi

1%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Miles is balanced between jobs and homes

1.04jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.04 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Miles are

4,357 jobs are based in Miles. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Miles’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Miles

4,357 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Miles residents hold

4,176 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+8%

Jobs based in Miles, 2013 → 2023: 4,042 → 4,357. 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.