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Work & commute in Miller Colony · A commuter town

100% of Miller Colony’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Miller Colony for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Choteau (33%), Great Falls (33%) and East Glacier Park Village (33%). Half commute less than 54 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 3 working residents
Typical commute
54 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Work from home
0%
Less than MT (13%)
Jobs based here
0
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Miller Colony?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

33% of working residents work in Choteau

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Choteau: 1 residents work here (33%)Great Falls: 1 residents work here (33%)Miller ColonyEast Glacier Park Village: 1 residents work here (33%)ChoteauGreat FallsEast Glacier Park VillageMiller Colony
1
Choteau9.3 mi away
33%1
2
Great Falls54.6 mi away
33%1
The top trips

Where Miller Colony clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.

3live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
0work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night67
Workday64
67live here− 3head out to work+ 0come in to work= 64on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.00jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Miller Colony commutes less than 54 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi65 miChoteau: 33% · 9.3 miGreat Falls: 33% · 54.6 miEast Glacier Park Village: 33% · 56 miChoteau 33%Great Falls 33%East Glacier Park Village 33%Miller Colony
Miller ColonyTop destinations (size = commuters)
33%Under 10 mi1 residents
0%10–24 mi0 residents
0%25–50 mi0 residents
67%Over 50 mi2 residents

About 67% 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.

Time on the road

Working from home in Miller Colony

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

Working from home
0%

of Miller Colony workers work from home, vs 13% across Montana. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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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.

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