Cascade County, Montana

• White (non-Hispanic) 69,694 82.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,470 5.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,102 1.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 841 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,050 6.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2,797 3.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 647 0.8%

• Under 18 18,862 22.3%
• 18–24 7,491 8.9%
• 25–44 22,503 26.6%
• 45–64 19,136 22.6%
• 65 and over 16,614 19.6%

Median household income

$63,905

90% interval $58,787–$69,023

−$11,615 vs MT · 27th of 56

Below poverty line

11.6%

90% interval 9.4%–13.8%

+1.2 pp vs MT · 35th of 56

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.04 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.7B

7.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,416

Establishments

3,117

• Education & health services 9,452 26.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 7,781 21.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 5,174 14.3%
• Professional & business services 3,542 9.8%
• Construction 2,812 7.8%
• Public administration 2,525 7.0%
• Financial activities 1,902 5.3%
• Manufacturing 1,293 3.6%
• Other services 1,256 3.5%
• Information 231 0.6%
• Natural resources & mining 180 0.5%
• Unclassified 43 0.1%

Home ownership

68.5%

−0.7 pp vs MT · 39th of 56

Median gross rent

$939

−$142 vs MT · 16th of 56

Owner-occupied

24,408

Renter-occupied

11,207

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $82,302/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,634/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 22,419 59.7%
• Democratic 14,021 37.3%
• Other / third-party 1,143 3.0%

• Spanish 1,260 1.6%
• German or other West Germanic 799 1.0%
• Tagalog 182 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 163 0.2%
• Chinese 137 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 61 0.1%
• Arabic 59 0.1%
• Korean 28 0.0%
• Vietnamese 9 0.0%

Households

35,615

Family households

21,153

59.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,816

27.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,783

8.4% of families

Veterans

7,929

12.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 17,013 20.2%
• Catholic 6,064 7.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,806 5.7%
• Mainline Protestant 3,773 4.5%
• Black Protestant 230 0.3%
• Orthodox 27 0.0%

Health insured

93.0%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

7.0%

±0.9 pp

32nd of 56

With a disability

16.3%

±1.1 pp

28th of 56

Bachelor's or higher

28.4%

±1.5 pp

−6.8 pp vs MT · 19th of 56

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

10.3%

90% interval 9.3%–11.3% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

8th Judicial District Court

Judges

4 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); Justice Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 courts.mt.gov; counts cross-checked against MCA § 3-5-102 statutory allocations. Several single-judge rural districts (5th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd) carry one District Court judgeship each.)

Court seats

Great Falls

Traffic fatalities

11

16.73 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

11