Lodge Pole, MT population, income and ZIP codes

Lodge Pole CDP is a very small community in Montana, with 257 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #223 of 497 ranked by population — larger than 55% of them. The median age here is 26.8 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 Lodge Pole CDP earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 29.2% 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 Lodge Pole CDP is valued at $110,000, 63.7% below the national figure and 56% below the $250,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $500 a month, 64.4% below the national figure, or roughly $6,000 across a full year. 62.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 26.8 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 257 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lodge Pole CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Lodge Pole 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.