Heron, MT population, income and ZIP codes

Heron CDP is a very small community in Montana, with 312 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #198 of 497 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 31.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Heron CDP earn a median of $29,357 a year, 62.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 53% below the $62,992 median for the 94 Montana cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 62.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Heron CDP is valued at $415,400, 36.9% above the national figure and 66% above the $250,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 14.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 63% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Home values sit at 14.1× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. With 312 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Heron CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Heron CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.