City safety & data profile
BozemanMT
Bozeman, MT is a 43K-resident city in Gallatin County with a median household income of $85,747.
Gallatin County, Montana. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Bozeman, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Bozeman has a population larger than 76% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $687,900, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 43K
- Population (place)
- Top 24%
- By size
- $85,747
- Median income (place)
- $687,900
- Median home (place)
- 13.7%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Bozeman
Bozeman posts a median household income higher than 56% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Bozeman area.
- Top 44%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Bozeman
Where Bozeman income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$85,747 Top 44% higher than 56% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
The quick read
Reading Bozeman, MT beyond the headline numbers
Bozeman sits inside Gallatin County, Montana, at roughly 45.68°N, -111.04°W. Population 43,405, $85,747 median household income. Median home value $687,900, median rent $1,717. Poverty rate 13.7%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Bozeman, 4/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.
Poverty in Bozeman, MT stands at 13.7%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
The median home in Bozeman costs around 8.0 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
16.1% of Bozeman workers are remote, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 25.2% in Bozeman, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Bozeman's median age is 28.9 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Bozeman 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 (Gallatin County): Bozeman'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 | 13.7% +10% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 3% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 65.1% |
| Work From Home | 16.1% |
| Public Transit | 0.7% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 1 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Bozeman?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Bozeman right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet MT-BOZEMAN · Bozeman
Bozeman: 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 Bozeman; 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 Bozeman, both outside Montana so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside MT (13.7% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside MT ($85,747 here).
Compare Bozeman 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 Bozeman'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 Bozeman 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 Bozeman 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 (Gallatin 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.