Billings

City Commute Profile

Billings, MT

Where Billings’s 61,547 resident workers go each day — 73.7% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Lockwood.

MontanaLODES 2023 data
85
Commute Score

85 / 100

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

Billings at a glance
Employed Residents
61,547
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
13.4mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
73.7%
Share working within the area
Work from home
8.5%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Lockwood
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Billings 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 Billings 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.

Billings

61,547 commutes, one dot at a time

Billings

Where 61,547 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

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

1Billings0.0 mi45,336
2Lockwood6.6 mi1,512
3Missoula272.2 mi966
4Bozeman121.8 mi903
5Laurel13.4 mi757
6Helena176.1 mi734
7Great Falls176.3 mi572
8Butte-Silver Bow (balance)194.4 mi360

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Billings.

1Billings0.0 mi45,336
2Lockwood6.6 mi2,303
3Laurel13.4 mi1,810
4Bozeman121.8 mi762
5Great Falls176.3 mi604
6Missoula272.2 mi566
7Butte-Silver Bow (balance)194.4 mi437
8Miles City136.8 mi394

Top industries

The sectors that employ Billings’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 Assistance19.9%
RTRetail Trade13.1%
AFAccommodation and Food Services11.7%
WSWholesale Trade6.1%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services6.0%
EDEducational Services5.8%
FIFinance and Insurance5.1%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.1%
PAPublic Administration5.0%

Billings city profile

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

Population
119,434
Median age
38.8yrs
Median household income
$73,712
Median home value
$343,400
Median gross rent
$1,138/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
36.9%
Poverty rate
9.8%

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 Billings

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

10 providers · 4 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps79%
5 Gbps62%
8 Gbps60%
See all internet providers in Billings

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