City safety & data profile
BillingsMT
Billings, MT is a 117K-resident city in Yellowstone County with a median household income of $73,712.
Yellowstone County, Montana. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Billings, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Billings has a population larger than 94% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $343,400, and 2 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 117K
- Population (place)
- Top 6%
- By size
- $73,712
- Median income (place)
- $343,400
- Median home (place)
- 9.8%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Billings
Billings posts a median household income higher than 42% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 2 hospitals serve the Billings area.
- Bottom 43%
- by median income, US cities
- 2
- hospitals in & near Billings
Where Billings income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$73,712 Bottom 42% higher than 42% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
The quick read
Reading Billings, MT beyond the headline numbers
Billings sits inside Yellowstone County, Montana, at roughly 45.78°N, -108.50°W. Population 117,116, $73,712 median household income. Median home value $343,400, median rent $1,138. Poverty rate 9.8%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
2 hospitals in/around Billings, 4/5 avg rating, 2 with an ER.
At 9.8%, poverty in Billings, MT runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
A median home in Billings runs about 4.7 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
Remote work covers 8.5% of Billings workers, under the midpoint for reporting cities.
Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 20% in Billings, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Billings from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Yellowstone County): Billings's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 9.8% -21% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 3.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 36.9% |
| Work From Home | 8.5% |
| Public Transit | 1.1% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 2 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Billings?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Billings right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet MT-BILLINGS · Billings
Billings: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Billings; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Montana state hubs · Methodology
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Billings, both outside Montana so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside MT (9.8% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside MT ($73,712 here).
Compare Billings with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Billings's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Billings area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Billings against Montana peers on any ranking lens. Explore Montana
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Yellowstone County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.