Missoula

City Commute Profile

Missoula, MT

Where Missoula’s 37,639 resident workers go each day — 71.8% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Helena.

MontanaLODES 2023 data
87
Commute Score

87 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Missoula at a glance
Employed Residents
37,639
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
8.0mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
71.8%
Share working within the area
Work from home
15.2%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Helena
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Missoula proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Missoula commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Missoula

37,639 commutes, one dot at a time

Missoula

Where 37,639 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Missoula, by worker count.

1Missoula0.0 mi27,013
2Helena96.4 mi640
3Billings272.2 mi566
4Orchard Homes2.3 mi556
5Bozeman163.6 mi510
6Butte-Silver Bow (balance)93.4 mi421
7Kalispell93.4 mi353
8Wye8.0 mi322

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Missoula.

1Missoula0.0 mi27,013
2Orchard Homes2.3 mi1,674
3Lolo7.5 mi1,211
4Billings272.2 mi966
5Butte-Silver Bow (balance)93.4 mi950
6East Missoula3.8 mi920
7Helena96.4 mi590
8Kalispell93.4 mi560

Top industries

The sectors that employ Missoula’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance19.2%
RTRetail Trade12.9%
AFAccommodation and Food Services10.8%
EDEducational Services9.7%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services8.4%
PAPublic Administration5.3%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services4.7%
OSOther Services (except Public Administration)4.5%
FIFinance and Insurance4.4%

Missoula city profile

Who lives in Missoula — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
76,514
Median age
34.7yrs
Median household income
$70,392
Median home value
$473,100
Median gross rent
$1,189/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
53.0%
Poverty rate
11.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Missoula

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

7 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps35%
5 Gbps26%
8 Gbps26%
See all internet providers in Missoula

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).