Highwood, MT population, income and ZIP codes

Highwood CDP is a very small community in Montana, with 209 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #243 of 497 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 29.4 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 Highwood CDP earn a median of $71,875 a year, 8.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% above the $62,992 median for the 94 Montana cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 6.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Highwood CDP is valued at $169,100, 44.3% below the national figure and 33% below the $250,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 70.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

A median age of 29.4 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 209 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Highwood CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Highwood 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.