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Chester town, Montana: commercial real estate data.
Chester town is a Census town of 749 people across 0.49 square miles of land, in Liberty County. Median household income is $53,750, 55.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Chester
What Chester is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.49 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,538
- County holding the largest share of its areaLiberty 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.
Chester
How many people live in Chester
- Population749
- Median age57.5
- Population under 18132 plus or minus 44
- Share under 1817.6 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Population 65 and over275
- Share 65 and over36.7 percent
- Households370
- Family households189 plus or minus 55
- Share of households that are families51.1 percent plus or minus 11.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
Income and work in Chester
- Median household income$53,750 plus or minus $11,510
- Per capita income$44,628 plus or minus $12,408
- Civilian labor force302 plus or minus 67
- Employed297 plus or minus 69
- Unemployed5 plus or minus 6
- Unemployment rate1.7 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Adults 25 and over584
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.8 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.5 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
Housing in Chester
- Housing units424
- Occupied units370
- Vacant units54 plus or minus 23
- Vacancy rate12.7 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Owner occupied206 plus or minus 46
- Renter occupied164 plus or minus 47
- Ownership rate55.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$172,900 plus or minus $44,158
- Median gross rent, monthly$720 plus or minus $181
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.1 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Single family units321
- Share single family75.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more92 plus or minus 40
- Share in buildings of two or more21.7 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Mobile homes9 plus or minus 7
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
How Chester gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute266 plus or minus 65
- Commuting under 15 minutes219 plus or minus 65
- Share commuting under 15 minutes82.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more24 plus or minus 21
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more9.0 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Drove alone70.8 percent plus or minus 23.1
- Carpooled5.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked18.2 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Worked from home2.9 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
SBA 504 lending to Chester borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$321,000
- Average approval$321,000
- Median approval$321,000
- Largest approval$321,000
- Jobs supported3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Liberty County, not Chester
Liberty County context, not Chester figures
These are Liberty County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Chester measurements.
- Establishments in Liberty County69
- Employment at those establishments, Liberty County347
- Covered employment, Liberty County513
- Average annual pay, Liberty County$41,372
- Average weekly wage, Liberty County$796
- County product, 2024, Liberty County$323,769,000
- County product change over the prior year, Liberty County-4.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Liberty County$31,000
Every figure in this section is published for Liberty County as a whole and is not a measurement of Chester. 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 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
Chester questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chester, Montana?
749, in 370 households. Chester town covers 0.49 square miles of land, which is 1,538 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chester in?
Liberty 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 Chester?
$53,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $172,900. Median gross rent is $720 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Chester figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Liberty 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 Chester.
Is zoning published for Chester?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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