ZIP code 59326

ZIP 59326 is a very small community in Prairie County, Montana, with 363 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #211 of 369 ranked by population — larger than 42% of them. The median age here is 37.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 ZIP 59326 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 42.1% 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 ZIP 59326 is valued at $224,300, 26.1% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $873 a month, 37.9% below the national figure, or roughly $10,476 across a full year. 53.1% 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.

With 363 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 59326 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for ZIP 59326 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.

ZIP 59326 is tabulated inside Prairie County, Montana, one of 2 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 369 across Montana. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 59326 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 59326 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $224,300, 20% above the county figure and 16% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $873 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Montana charges 0% statewide, and local governments overlapping 59326 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 59326 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.