State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Montana
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,081 ± $14 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 44.8% ± 1.1 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 20.8% ± 0.9 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $43,240. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | $1,081 ± $14 | 44.8% | 20.8% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Montana
- Beaverhead County$837 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
- Big Horn County$697 median gross rent · 21.6% rent burden
- Blaine County$660 median gross rent · 28.5% rent burden
- Broadwater County$955 median gross rent · 58.2% rent burden
- Carbon County$844 median gross rent · 32.7% rent burden
- Cascade County$939 median gross rent · 44.3% rent burden
- Chouteau County$536 median gross rent · 32.8% rent burden
- Custer County$893 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
- Dawson County$815 median gross rent · 35.5% rent burden
- Deer Lodge County$696 median gross rent · 34.3% rent burden
- Fallon County$779 median gross rent · 8.6% rent burden
- Fergus County$954 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- Flathead County$1,142 median gross rent · 50.7% rent burden
- Gallatin County$1,694 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Glacier County$548 median gross rent · 40.6% rent burden
- Granite County$675 median gross rent · 46.6% rent burden
- Hill County$776 median gross rent · 39.1% rent burden
- Jefferson County$925 median gross rent · 30% rent burden
- Lake County$901 median gross rent · 41.3% rent burden
- Lewis and Clark County$1,102 median gross rent · 40.5% rent burden
- Liberty County$710 median gross rent · 44.5% rent burden
- Lincoln County$762 median gross rent · 45.5% rent burden
- Madison County$1,000 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
- Meagher County$1,263 median gross rent · 9.5% rent burden
- Mineral County$801 median gross rent · 47.5% rent burden
- Missoula County$1,190 median gross rent · 48.1% rent burden
- Park County$976 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Phillips County$536 median gross rent · 39% rent burden
- Pondera County$784 median gross rent · 36% rent burden
- Powell County$820 median gross rent · 17% rent burden
- Ravalli County$1,054 median gross rent · 42.4% rent burden
- Richland County$917 median gross rent · 28.2% rent burden
- Roosevelt County$705 median gross rent · 32.2% rent burden
- Rosebud County$672 median gross rent · 38% rent burden
- Sanders County$820 median gross rent · 56.2% rent burden
- Sheridan County$746 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Silver Bow County$863 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- Stillwater County$961 median gross rent · 28.6% rent burden
- Sweet Grass County$1,149 median gross rent · 41.6% rent burden
- Teton County$730 median gross rent · 41.8% rent burden
- Toole County$826 median gross rent · 41.3% rent burden
- Valley County$767 median gross rent · 42.9% rent burden
- Wheatland County$730 median gross rent · 29.1% rent burden
- Yellowstone County$1,131 median gross rent · 46.8% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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