Montana population growth remains well below pandemic boom years
A builder works on a home along Farm to Market Road on Wednesday, Dec. 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
After several years of rapid expansion during the Covid-19 pandemic, Montana’s population growth rate has continued settling to a slower pace according to 2025 figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week.
The Census Bureau estimates Montana added 7,137 residents between mid-2024 and mid-2025 for an annual growth rate of less than one percent. That’s a modest increase from the roughly 5,900 residents added the previous year but remains far below the nearly 18,000 added in 2021, the peak of the pandemic migration surge.
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