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Work & commute in Rhodes · A commuter town

100% of Rhodes’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Rhodes for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Kalispell (33%), Missoula (6%) and Whitefish (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 64 working residents
Typical commute
11 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Work from home
0%
Less than MT (13%)
Jobs based here
7
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Rhodes?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

33% of working residents work in Kalispell

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

Scobey: 1 residents work here (2%)Eureka: 1 residents work here (2%)Libby: 1 residents work here (2%)Columbia Falls: 1 residents work here (2%)Polson: 1 residents work here (2%)Whitefish: 3 residents work here (5%)Kalispell: 21 residents work here (33%)Missoula: 4 residents work here (6%)Billings: 3 residents work here (5%)RhodesKilaEvergreen: 3 residents work here (5%)Seeley LakeKalispellMissoulaWhitefishBillingsEvergreenScobeyRhodes
1
Kalispell8 mi away
33%21
2
Missoula99.4 mi away
6%4
3
Whitefish12.2 mi away
5%3
4
Billings327.5 mi away
5%3
5
Evergreen9.8 mi away
5%3
6
Scobey415.3 mi away
2%1
7
Eureka49.1 mi away
2%1
8
Libby50.4 mi away
2%1
9
Columbia Falls14.3 mi away
2%1
10
Polson43.7 mi away
2%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
39%25
The top trips

Where Rhodes clocks in

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

Day and night

Rhodes quiets down on a workday

On a workday 64 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.

64live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
7work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night110
Workday53
110live here− 64head out to work+ 7come in to work= 53on a workday

About 53 people are in Rhodes on a workday afternoon, 52% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.11jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.11 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 Rhodes commutes less than 11 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 mi80 miKalispell: 33% · 8 miMissoula: 6% · 99.4 miWhitefish: 5% · 12.2 miBillings: 5% · 327.5 miEvergreen: 5% · 9.8 miScobey: 2% · 415.3 miEureka: 2% · 49.1 miLibby: 2% · 50.4 miColumbia Falls: 2% · 14.3 miPolson: 2% · 43.7 miKalispell 33%Missoula 6%Whitefish 5%Billings 5%Evergreen 5%Rhodes
RhodesTop destinations (size = commuters)
43%Under 10 mi26 residents
31%10–24 mi19 residents
5%25–50 mi3 residents
21%Over 50 mi13 residents

About 21% 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.

The jobs

Rhodes makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods

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

Jobs based in RhodesJobs Rhodes residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms100%31%
Trade, transport & utilities0%13%
Services: health, schools, offices0%56%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less14%14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%27%
Over $3,333 a month57%59%

Who does it

29 or younger29%28%
30 to 5471%50%
55 and older0%22%
+0%

Jobs based in Rhodes, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 7. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

Working from home in Rhodes

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

Working from home
0%

of Rhodes 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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