Work & commute · St. Marie

Work & commute in St. Marie, MT

Most working residents leave St. Marie for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Glasgow (40%), Billings (6%) and Miles City (3%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 156 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— 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 155 St. Marie residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Marie.

155live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

36work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Marie goes to work

Glasgow15.5 mi away

40%63

Billings205 mi away

6%9

Miles City141.5 mi away

3%5

Havre145.9 mi away

3%4

Helena286.3 mi away

3%4

Malta63 mi away

2%3

Opheim31.5 mi away

1%2

Nashua19.9 mi away

1%2

Wolf Point45 mi away

1%2

Sidney117.7 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%60

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

How far

How far St. Marie commutes

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

53%

38%

1%Under 10 mi

53%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

38%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Marie is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Marie are

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

Jobs based in St. Marie

37 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities68%

Services (health, schools, offices…)16%

$1,250 a month or less32%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month22%

Jobs St. Marie residents hold

156 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month52%

−56%

Jobs based in St. Marie, 2013 → 2023: 84 → 37. 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.