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Big Sandy town, Montana: commercial real estate data.
Big Sandy town is a Census town of 784 people across 0.48 square miles of land, in Chouteau County. Median household income is $60,521, 74.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $350,000.
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Big Sandy
What Big Sandy is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.48 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,645 plus or minus 350
- County holding the largest share of its areaChouteau County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Sandy
How many people live in Big Sandy
- Population784 plus or minus 167
- Median age43.4
- Population under 18166 plus or minus 56
- Share under 1821.2 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Population 65 and over192 plus or minus 52
- Share 65 and over24.5 percent
- Households259 plus or minus 55
- Family households163 plus or minus 39
- Share of households that are families62.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Sandy
Income and work in Big Sandy
- Median household income$60,521 plus or minus $16,173
- Per capita income$30,399
- Civilian labor force346 plus or minus 97
- Employed308 plus or minus 82
- Unemployed38 plus or minus 39
- Unemployment rate11.0 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Adults 25 and over575 plus or minus 119
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.4 percent plus or minus 26.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.2 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.8 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Sandy
Housing in Big Sandy
- Housing units312
- Occupied units259 plus or minus 55
- Vacant units53 plus or minus 25
- Vacancy rate17.0 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Owner occupied193 plus or minus 39
- Renter occupied66 plus or minus 40
- Ownership rate74.5 percent plus or minus 21.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$187,500 plus or minus $65,946
- Median gross rent, monthly$550 plus or minus $485
- Annual rent as a share of median income10.9 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Single family units256
- Share single family82.1 percent plus or minus 21.9
- Units in buildings of two or more40 plus or minus 39
- Share in buildings of two or more12.8 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Mobile homes16 plus or minus 14
- Median year structure built1958
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Sandy
How Big Sandy gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute252 plus or minus 67
- Commuting under 15 minutes134 plus or minus 52
- Share commuting under 15 minutes53.2 percent plus or minus 15.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more59 plus or minus 28
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more23.4 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Drove alone63.6 percent
- Carpooled16.7 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.4 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Worked from home14.3 percent plus or minus 12.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Sandy
SBA loans in Big Sandy (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$350,000
- Average approval$350,000
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$350,000
- Largest approval$350,000
- Jobs supported11
- Jobs per approval11.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term149 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Chouteau County, not Big Sandy
Chouteau County context, not Big Sandy figures
These are Chouteau County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Big Sandy measurements.
- Establishments in Chouteau County153
- Employment at those establishments, Chouteau County772
- Covered employment, Chouteau County1,237
- Average annual pay, Chouteau County$44,304
- Average weekly wage, Chouteau County$852
- Housing units permitted, Chouteau County19
- Of those, single family, Chouteau County17
- County product, 2024, Chouteau County$292,455,000
- County product change over the prior year, Chouteau County-31.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Chouteau County$41,199
Every figure in this section is published for Chouteau County as a whole and is not a measurement of Big Sandy. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Big Sandy questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Big Sandy, Montana?
784, in 259 households. Big Sandy town covers 0.48 square miles of land, which is 1,645 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Big Sandy in?
Chouteau County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Big Sandy?
$60,521. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $187,500. Median gross rent is $550 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Big Sandy businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $350,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Big Sandy, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Big Sandy borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Big Sandy. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Big Sandy figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Chouteau County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Big Sandy.
Is zoning published for Big Sandy?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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