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SheetMT-GALLATIN-GATEWAY-MT · Gallatin Gateway, MT 1,092 pop · income 63rd pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Gallatin Gateway
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Gallatin Gateway on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Plains · lowest
24,661
Plains · lowest
24,661 median HH income
9.9% of the leader · rank #1
Chalco · near
81,427
Chalco · near
81,427 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #2
Gallatin Gate… · this city
81,429
Gallatin Gate… · this city
81,429 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #3
Talmo · near
81,429
Talmo · near
81,429 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #4
Mannsville · near
81,429
Mannsville · near
81,429 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #5
Danbury · near
81,442
Danbury · near
81,442 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #6
Chevy Chase V… · highest
250,001
Chevy Chase V… · highest
250,001 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Gallatin Gateway on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 1,092.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Gallatin Gateway lands in the 63rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
63rd
percentile, household income
94th
percentile, home value
61st
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Gallatin Gateway, MT
Gallatin Gateway is a small town in Montana, home to 1,092 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Gallatin Gateway households earn a median of $81,429 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.7%. Typical homes in Gallatin Gateway are valued around $747,900, and the median resident age is 39.4 years. Educational attainment runs 34.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 5 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Living costs in Montana run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Montana scores 94.6 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,336 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Montana's average monthly utility costs around $175 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 33.3 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Gallatin Gateway's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Gallatin Gateway, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Gallatin Gateway?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 34.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
What does the journey to work look like in Gallatin Gateway?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
How far does income reach against housing in Gallatin Gateway?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 9.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Gallatin Gateway?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Montana, the closest population matches are White Sulphur Springs (1,097 residents, $56,424 income); Plains (1,077 residents, $24,661 income); Churchill (1,120 residents, $95,550 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Teviston, CA (1,092 residents); Sully, IA (1,092 residents); Chevy Chase View, MD (1,092 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Above median income · poverty 5.7% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.6 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Montana average
C+
City profile score · Gallatin Gateway, MT
63/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living B-
94.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income C+
$81,429
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Gallatin Gateway profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.9%
Cost of living: 66/100 (B-) · 94.6 index
Household income: 61/100 (C+) · $81,429
Poverty rate: 61/100 (C+) · 5.7%
How does Gallatin Gateway compare to other US cities?
Where Gallatin Gateway sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income63% higher than other cities
Home value94% pricier than other cities
Median rent61% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Gallatin Gateway against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Montana only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Montana-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Gallatin Gateway near the bottom of Montana's cities
Among the 317 Montana cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Gallatin Gateway ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Gallatin Gateway only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#58 of 282
79th percentile in Montana
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 317
0th percentile in Montana
Median Home Value
#10 of 279
96th percentile in Montana
Poverty Rate
#167 of 315
46th percentile in Montana
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#64 of 317
79th percentile in Montana
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Montana only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
63rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Gallatin Gateway's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$747,9006th percentilemore affordable than 6% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,268 of 15,516
More affordable than 2% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,170 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 9.2×, Gallatin Gateway sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,268 of 15,516 and #11,170 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$81,429Gallatin Gateway, MT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Gallatin Gateway, MT median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Gallatin Gateway, MT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,092
Median Income
$81,429
Median Home Value
$747,900
Median Age
39.4
Poverty Rate
5.7%
Labor force participation
58.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.9%
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.9%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
5.9%
Work from Home
13.9%
Based on 438 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Montana statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $175
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Montana at $175 (electricity about $80 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Montana statewide averages, not a meter reading for Gallatin Gateway. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Montana's BEA cost-of-living index is 94.6 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Gallatin Gateway is $1,336/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Montana statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 33.3 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Montana statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Gallatin Gateway sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Gallatin Gateway compares to similar-size Montana cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.