City safety & data profile
KalispellMT
Kalispell, MT is a 22K-resident city in Flathead County with a median household income of $63,415.
Flathead County, Montana. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Kalispell, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Kalispell has a population larger than 49% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $428,000, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 22K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 50%
- By size
- $63,415
- Median income (place)
- $428,000
- Median home (place)
- 10%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Kalispell
Kalispell posts a median household income higher than 27% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Kalispell area.
- Bottom 28%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Kalispell
Where Kalispell income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$63,415 Bottom 27% higher than 27% 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 Kalispell, MT beyond the headline numbers
Kalispell sits inside Flathead County, Montana, at roughly 48.20°N, -114.31°W. Population 22,052, $63,415 median household income. Median home value $428,000, median rent $1,078. Poverty rate 10%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Kalispell, 3/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.
At 10%, poverty in Kalispell, MT runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
The median home in Kalispell costs around 6.7 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.
Remote work covers 12.5% of Kalispell workers, under the midpoint for reporting cities.
Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 20.2% in Kalispell, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Public transit carries 0.1% of Kalispell workers, a smaller share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Kalispell 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 (Flathead County): Kalispell'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 | 10% -19% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 2.6% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 34.8% |
| Work From Home | 12.5% |
| Public Transit | 0.1% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 1 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Kalispell?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Kalispell right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet MT-KALISPELL · Kalispell
Kalispell: 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 Kalispell; 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 Kalispell, both outside Montana so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside MT (10% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside MT ($63,415 here).
Compare Kalispell 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 Kalispell'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 Kalispell area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
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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 (Flathead 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.