Great Falls

Population & Demographics

Great Falls, MT

Great Falls is home to 60,329 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 27,558 resident workers commute each day.

MontanaCensus ACS 5-Year · LODES 2023
60,329
people
Population

60,329 residents

Median age 39.0 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).

Great Falls population & demographics

Who lives in Great Falls — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
60,329
Median age
39.0yrs
Median household income
$63,373
Median home value
$257,000
Median gross rent
$900/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
27.8%
Poverty rate
14.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Race & ethnicity in Great Falls

How Great Falls breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).

White82.3%
Two or more races6.0%
Hispanic or Latino5.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native3.7%
Asian1.0%
Black1.0%
Some other race0.8%

Race across Great Falls

Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across Great Falls.

Great Falls at a glance
Employed Residents
27,558
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
9.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
69.4%
Share working within the area
Work from home
6.8%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Helena
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Great Falls proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Great Falls commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

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Commute Score

90 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Great Falls

27,558 commutes, one dot at a time

Great Falls

Where 27,558 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Great Falls, by worker count.

1Great Falls0.0 mi19,123
2Helena71.7 mi1,047
3Billings176.3 mi604
4Missoula135.9 mi445
5Bozeman126.4 mi430
6Black Eagle1.6 mi397
7Butte-Silver Bow (balance)122.8 mi269
8Havre103.6 mi144

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Great Falls.

1Great Falls0.0 mi19,123
2Billings176.3 mi572
3Helena71.7 mi526
4Sun Prairie10.2 mi451
5Bozeman126.4 mi366
6Butte-Silver Bow (balance)122.8 mi361
7Missoula135.9 mi309
8Black Eagle1.6 mi266

Top industries

The sectors that employ Great Falls’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance22.3%
RTRetail Trade15.3%
AFAccommodation and Food Services12.0%
EDEducational Services7.0%
COConstruction5.6%
FIFinance and Insurance5.1%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services4.9%
PAPublic Administration4.7%
WSWholesale Trade4.4%
Connectivity

Internet options for Great Falls

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

8 providers · 4 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps98% of homes
2 Gbps57%
5 Gbps50%
8 Gbps33%
See all internet providers in Great Falls

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).