Census-designated place · Big Horn County, Montana

Crow Agency, Montana

Crow Agency is a census-designated place in Big Horn County, Montana. It has 2,192 residents. Crow Agency, Montana has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,273 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Montana it ranks #94 of 94 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), effective property tax rate (low) and average commute time (low). It ranks worst on lack of reliable transportation (high), premature death (high) and injury deaths (high).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,273 of 15,651 cities and towns
Montana: #94 of 94 in MT
Population: 2,192 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 298.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3018250

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety5#14,880/15,637
Economy3#15,224/15,631
Housing100#4/14,977
Health1#15,503/15,609
Healthcare2#15,264/15,650
Environment70#4,651/15,453
Education20#12,489/15,649
Infrastructure9#14,296/15,650
Community3#15,158/15,651
Leisure & amenities22#12,144/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Crow Agency, Montana ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Big Horn County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Home price to income ratio · low1.1×
99/100Montana 5.2×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Effective property tax rate · low0.24%
99/100Montana 0.61%United States 0.94%2019-2023U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090High uncertainty
Average commute time · low12.6 min
99/100Montana 19.1 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Rent-burdened households · low7.1%
97/100Montana 44.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
High school diploma or higher · high85.2%
94/100Montana 94.6%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Rent as share of income · low15.4%
93/100Montana 27.8%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Lack of reliable transportation · high29.3%
0/100Montana 8.1%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Premature death · high24,079 /100k
0/100Montana 8,503 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBig Horn County value
Injury deaths · high223 /100k
0/100Montana 105 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBig Horn County value
Traffic deaths · high100.7 /100k
0/100Montana 19.4 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataBig Horn County value
Reading scores · low2.02
0/100Montana 3.08United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBig Horn County value
Adult smoking · high35.8%
0/100Montana 15.1%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
2,010 (2015-2019) → 2,192 (2020-2024)
+9.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
34.6% (2015-2019) → 7.1% (2020-2024)
−28 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
51.5% (2015-2019) → 76.9% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Unemployment rateWorsening
21.1% (2015-2019) → 32.4% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
45.1% (2015-2019) → 34.2% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Home price to income ratioImproving
2.1× (2015-2019) → 1.1× (2020-2024)
−46%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Crow Agency, Montana improved on 3 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Broadband+25 points51.5% → 76.9%
Price / income−1.0×2.1× → 1.1×
Household income+45%$36,000 → $52,339

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Crow Agency, Montana between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	14.2 min2015-2019	12.6 min2020-2024	−1.6 min	Within the margin of error	67%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.0%2015-2019	12.1%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	51.5%2015-2019	76.9%2020-2024	+25 points	Improved	96%
Child poverty rate	46.3%2015-2019	37.4%2020-2024	−8.9 points	Within the margin of error	80%
High school diploma or higher	89.9%2015-2019	85.2%2020-2024	−4.8 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	1.1×2020-2024	−1.0×	Improved	97%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4442015-2019	0.3702020-2024	−0.074	Within the margin of error	91%
Median household income	$36,0002015-2019	$52,3392020-2024	+45%	Improved	80%
Poverty rate	39.6%2015-2019	39.2%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	22.6%2015-2019	15.4%2020-2024	−7.2 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Unemployment rate	21.1%2015-2019	32.4%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	45.1%2015-2019	34.2%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	97%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Crow Agency, Montana five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Crow Agency, Montana in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Crow Agency, Montana itself moved +7.8 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,192 residents (±415)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

472 households (±95)

Crow Agency, Montana
Montana share

Under $25k29%†139
$25k–50k14%†68
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

472 households (±95)

Crow Agency, Montana
Montana share

Own74%347
Rent26%†125

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

476 workers (±124)

Crow Agency, Montana
Montana share

Drive alone64%†303
Carpool16%†75
Public transit

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Big Horn County, the county holding most of Crow Agency's residents.

Big Horn County has 181 employer establishments, 141 for every 10,000 residents (0.57× the US rate of 248; 0.37× Montana's), with 1,774 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,971. The Census Bureau also counts 584 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 181; 584 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 141; US 248 · Montana 376
Paid employees: 1,774
Average annual pay: $51,971; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Big Horn County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	10	7.8	2.92×More than typical	60	$24,700	17
Restaurants and other eating places	10	7.8	0.42×Fewer than typical	148	$17,074	—
Gasoline stations	9	7	2.16×Too few to compare	110	$27,227	—
Ambulatory health care services	8	6.2	0.30×Too few to compare	198	$45,005	14
Religious organizations	8	6.2	1.12×Too few to compare	13	$11,923	—
Lessors of real estate	7	5.4	0.44×Too few to compare	18	$24,500	44
Insurance agencies and brokerages	6	4.7	1.06×Too few to compare	25	$59,040	6
Other amusement and recreation industries	6	4.7	1.92×Too few to compare	27	$28,111	16
Specialty trade contractors	6	4.7	0.30×Too few to compare	9	$49,111	43
Truck transportation	6	4.7	0.92×Too few to compare	28	$82,643	14
RV parks and recreational camps	5	3.9	16.4×Too few to compare	18	$33,778	—
Traveler accommodation	5	3.9	2.15×Too few to compare	40	$25,350	—

Rank places for an industry Open Big Horn County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 12,860 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $638.9K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Crow Agency, Montana: $291 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $638.9K; −55% vs FY2025
Per resident: $291; US $1,995
Sole-source: 35%; US 30%
Single offer: 19%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Emergency Management Agency$497K78%
Indian Health Service$73.9K12%
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$36.4K5.7%
Departmental Offices$22.3K3.5%
National Park Service$7,8031.2%
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$1,5310.2%

Top recipients

FED SERVE LLC$322.5K50%
CHENEGA GOVERNMENT MISSION SOLUTIONS, LLC$149.9K23%
TRIBAL HEALTH, LLC$138.8K22%
PARLIAMENT LLC$88.5K14%
J & J HOMES, LLC$85.8K13%

Spending by fiscal year

461KFY2017
574.2KFY2018
699.8KFY2019
508.1KFY2020
679.4KFY2021
1.1MFY2022
1.9MFY2023
1.4M

Top industries (NAICS)

Residential building construction · 2361$321.8K50%
Motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing · 3362$174.6K27%
Other professional, scientific, and technical services · 5419$159K25%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$73K11%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$52.2K8.2%
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Crow Agency, Montana, so they do not add up across cities.

Crow Agency, Montana's figures are part of those of Big Horn County, MT ($16.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 3.9% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Crow Agency is mostly in Big Horn County.

See federal money in Big Horn County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Crow Agency, Montana is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Troy DowningR-MT-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Big Horn County11100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Big Horn County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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