Work & commute · Orchard Homes

Work & commute in Orchard Homes, MT

Most working residents leave Orchard Homes for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Missoula (69%), Bozeman (2%) and Helena (2%). Half commute less than 3 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

88 of 2,235 working residents

Typical commute

3 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 2,147 Orchard Homes residents head out of town to work, 88 work right here, and 1,122 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orchard Homes.

2,147live here, work elsewhere

88live and work here

1,122work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Orchard Homes goes to work

Missoula2.5 mi away

69%1,546

Orchard Homes (in town)right here

4%88

Bozeman165.3 mi away

2%45

Helena98.8 mi away

2%37

Billings273.3 mi away

2%35

Kalispell94.8 mi away

1%27

Hamilton41.9 mi away

1%19

Great Falls137.6 mi away

1%18

Wye7.3 mi away

1%17

Bonner-West Riverside8.7 mi away

1%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

17%387

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

How far

How far Orchard Homes commutes

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

79%

17%

79%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Orchard Homes is a commuter town

0.54jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Orchard Homes are

1,210 jobs are based in Orchard Homes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Orchard Homes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Orchard Homes

1,210 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities41%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Orchard Homes residents hold

2,235 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+53%

Jobs based in Orchard Homes, 2013 → 2023: 789 → 1,210. 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.