Work & commute · Simms

Work & commute in Simms, MT

Most working residents leave Simms for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Great Falls (52%), Helena (4%) and Fairfield (3%). Half commute less than 30 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 100 working residents

Typical commute

30 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

15 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 95 Simms residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 79 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Simms.

95live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

79work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Simms goes to work

Great Falls30.5 mi away

52%52

Simms (in town)right here

5%5

Helena62.1 mi away

4%4

Fairfield8.6 mi away

3%3

Bozeman132.2 mi away

2%2

Billings199.7 mi away

2%2

Judson, ND381.1 mi away

2%2

Vaughn18.8 mi away

2%2

Salinas, CA894.8 mi away

1%1

Forsyth263.3 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

26%26

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

How far

How far Simms commutes

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

65%

20%

9%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

65%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Simms is balanced between jobs and homes

0.84jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Simms are

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

Jobs based in Simms

84 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Simms residents hold

100 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+4100%

Jobs based in Simms, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 84. 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.