MONTANA AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS 

 MONTANA POPULATION 



Urban and Rural — by Counties 



U.S. 



Census 



(Prov.) 



July 1 



COUNTY 1976 



Beaverhead 8,200 



Big Horn 10,600 



Blaine 7,400 



Broadwater 3,100 



Carbon 8,300 



Carter 1,800 



Cascade 83,600 



Chouteau 6,200 



Custer 13,000 



Daniels 3,200 



Dawson 11,200 



Deer Lodge 14,600 



Fallon 3,900 



Fergus 13,000 



Flathead 45,400 



Gallatin 37,400 



Garfield 1,800 



Glacier 10,900 



Golden Valley 1,000 



Granite 2,700 



Hill 18,100 



Jefferson 6,900 



Judith Basin 2,700 



Lake 17,400 



Lewis & Clark 38,000 



Liberty 2,500 



Lincoln 16,400 



McCone 2,700 



Madison 5,400 



Meagher 2,200 



Mineral 3,500 



Missoula 65,500 



Musselshell 4,400 



Park 12,600 



Petroleum 700 



Phillips 5,500 



Pondera 7,000 



Powder River 2,500 



Powell 7,600 



Prairie 1,700 



Ravalli 18,500 



Richland 10,300 



Roosevelt 10,500 



Rosebud 9,900 



Sanders 8,000 



Sheridan 5,500 



Silver Bow 41,100 



Stillwater 5,200 



Sweet Grass 3,200 



Teton 6,100 



Toole 5,300 



Treasure 1,300 



Valley 13,400 



Wheatland 2,500 



Wibaux 1,500 



Yellowstone 99,600 



Yellowstone Natl. Pk 100 



State Total 752,600 



'Urban defined as persons living in areas or places of 2,500 inhabitants or nnore. 



MONTANA FARM POPULATION vs. TOTAL POPULATION, 1920-701 



Total 

 Year Population 



1920 546,000 



1930 538,000 



1940 560,000 



1950 591,000 



1%0 675,000 



1970 694,000 



'"Farm Population Estimate" Rural Development Service, USDA Statistical Bulletin 523. 



