Shepherd, MT population, income and ZIP codes

Shepherd CDP is a very small community in Montana, with 613 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #141 of 497 ranked by population — larger than 71% of them. The median age here is 47.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Shepherd CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 9.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Shepherd CDP is valued at $179,700, 40.8% below the national figure and 28% below the $250,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 94.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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.

With 613 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Shepherd CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Shepherd 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.