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Montana population 2026
Montana has 1,144,694 people on the latest official figure, for 1 July 2025, 7,137 more than a year earlier (+0.63%). It is 43rd of the US’s 50 states and DC by population, home to 0.3% of the US’s people.
If last year’s change continues: about 1.2 million by 1 July 2026. That is our arithmetic, not an official figure.
Montana in numbers
- Population
- 1.1 million 1 July 2025
- Change in a year
- +0.63% +7,137 people
- Change since 2020
- +5.29% from 1.1 million
- Share of the US
- 0.3% 43rd of 50 states and DC
- Population density
- 3per km² 376,973 km²
- Births in the year
- 11 thousand deaths: 11 thousand
- International migration
- +899 net arrivals from abroad
- Moves within the US
- +6 thousand more people moved in than left
In the latest year deaths outnumbered births by 90, 899 more people arrived from abroad than left, and 6,348 more people moved in from the rest of the US than moved out.
That is about as many people as Djibouti (1.2 million).
Population of Montana by year
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| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 990,730 |
| 2011 | 997,518 |
| 2012 | 1,004,168 |
| 2013 | 1,014,158 |
| 2014 | 1,022,657 |
| 2015 | 1,031,495 |
| 2016 | 1,042,137 |
| 2017 | 1,053,862 |
| 2018 | 1,061,818 |
| 2019 | 1,070,123 |
| 2020 | 1,087,156 |
| 2021 | 1,106,416 |
| 2022 | 1,121,533 |
| 2023 | 1,130,612 |
| 2024 | 1,137,557 |
| 2025 | 1,144,694 |
| Year | Population | Change | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,144,694 | +7,137 | +0.63% |
| 2024 | 1,137,557 | +6,945 | +0.61% |
| 2023 | 1,130,612 | +9,079 | +0.81% |
| 2022 | 1,121,533 | +15,117 | +1.37% |
| 2021 | 1,106,416 | +19,260 | +1.77% |
| 2020 | 1,087,156 | +17,033 | +1.59% |
| 2019 | 1,070,123 | +8,305 | +0.78% |
| 2018 | 1,061,818 | +7,956 | +0.75% |
| 2017 | 1,053,862 | +11,725 | +1.13% |
| 2016 | 1,042,137 | +10,642 | +1.03% |
| 2015 | 1,031,495 | +8,838 | +0.86% |
| 2014 | 1,022,657 | +8,499 | +0.84% |
| 2013 | 1,014,158 | +9,990 | +0.99% |
| 2012 | 1,004,168 | +6,650 | +0.67% |
| 2011 | 997,518 | +6,788 | +0.69% |
2010–2019 are Vintage 2020 estimates and 2020–2025 are Vintage 2025, so the step between 2019 and 2020 is partly a change of base.
Montana among the US’s states
Full ranking →| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 39,355,309 | −0.02% | 11.5% | 98 |
| 2 | Texas | 31,709,821 | +1.25% | 9.3% | 47 |
| 3 | Florida | 23,462,518 | +0.84% | 6.9% | 169 |
| 4 | New York State | 20,002,427 | +0.01% | 5.9% | 164 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 13,059,432 | +0.10% | 3.8% | 113 |
| 6 | Illinois | 12,719,141 | +0.13% | 3.7% | 89 |
| 7 | Ohio | 11,900,510 | +0.34% | 3.5% | 113 |
| 8 | Georgia (US State) | 11,302,748 | +0.88% | 3.3% | 76 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 11,197,968 | +1.32% | 3.3% | 89 |
| 10 | Michigan | 10,127,884 | +0.28% | 3.0% | 69 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 9,548,215 | +0.44% | 2.8% | 501 |
| 12 | Virginia | 8,880,107 | +0.69% | 2.6% | 87 |
| 13 | Washington State | 8,001,020 | +0.92% | 2.3% | 47 |
| 14 | Arizona | 7,623,818 | +0.89% | 2.2% | 26 |
| 15 | Tennessee | 7,315,076 | +0.88% | 2.1% | 69 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 7,154,084 | +0.22% | 2.1% | 354 |
| 17 | Indiana | 6,973,333 | +0.56% | 2.0% | 75 |
| 18 | Missouri | 6,270,541 | +0.43% | 1.8% | 35 |
| 19 | Maryland | 6,265,347 | +0.32% | 1.8% | 249 |
| 20 | Colorado | 6,012,561 | +0.40% | 1.8% | 22 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 5,972,787 | +0.26% | 1.7% | 43 |
| 22 | Minnesota | 5,830,405 | +0.57% | 1.7% | 28 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 5,570,274 | +1.46% | 1.6% | 72 |
| 24 | Alabama | 5,193,088 | +0.58% | 1.5% | 40 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 4,618,189 | +0.07% | 1.4% | 41 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 4,606,864 | +0.50% | 1.3% | 45 |
| 27 | Oregon | 4,273,586 | +0.19% | 1.3% | 17 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 4,123,288 | +0.62% | 1.2% | 23 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 3,688,496 | +0.38% | 1.1% | 294 |
| 30 | Utah | 3,538,904 | +1.02% | 1.0% | 17 |
| 31 | Nevada | 3,282,188 | +0.88% | 1.0% | 12 |
| 32 | Iowa | 3,238,387 | +0.25% | 0.9% | 22 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 3,114,791 | +0.60% | 0.9% | 23 |
| 34 | Kansas | 2,977,220 | +0.40% | 0.9% | 14 |
| 35 | Mississippi | 2,954,160 | +0.14% | 0.9% | 24 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 2,125,498 | −0.06% | 0.6% | 7 |
| 37 | Idaho | 2,029,733 | +1.44% | 0.6% | 10 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 2,018,006 | +0.62% | 0.6% | 10 |
| 39 | West Virginia | 1,766,147 | −0.07% | 0.5% | 28 |
| 40 | Hawaii | 1,432,820 | −0.15% | 0.4% | 86 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 1,415,342 | +0.48% | 0.4% | 61 |
| 42 | Maine | 1,414,874 | +0.46% | 0.4% | 18 |
| 43 | Montana | 1,144,694 | +0.63% | 0.3% | 3 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 1,114,521 | +0.37% | 0.3% | 416 |
| 45 | Delaware | 1,059,952 | +0.94% | 0.3% | 210 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 935,094 | +0.86% | 0.3% | 5 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 799,358 | +0.75% | 0.2% | 5 |
| 48 | Alaska | 737,270 | +0.10% | 0.2% | 1 |
| 49 | District of Columbia | 693,645 | +0.34% | 0.2% | 4,381 |
| 50 | Vermont | 644,663 | −0.29% | 0.2% | 27 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 588,753 | +0.35% | 0.2% | 2 |
Largest cities in Montana
City proper, not the wider metro area; latest figure in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), so years differ.
- Billings117,116
- Missoula71,022
- Great Falls59,638
- Bozeman43,405
- Butte34,190
- Helena32,091
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Source and method
US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. US government work, public domain. Land area, US Census Bureau Gazetteer. The Census Bureau publishes new state estimates each December. Ranks, shares and changes are our arithmetic on the published figures. National figures can differ from the UN’s projection for the US, which uses a different method. The 2026 figure above carries last year’s change forward; it does not come from the source.
Cite this page: Montana population, US Census Bureau, 1 July 2025. GlobeMetrics, https://globemetrics.org/world-population/united-states/montana/
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