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Eureka town, Montana: commercial real estate data.
Eureka town is a Census town of 1,840 people across 1.33 square miles of land, in Lincoln County. Median household income is $38,750, 78.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.0 m.
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Eureka
What Eureka is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.33 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,387 plus or minus 320
- County holding the largest share of its areaLincoln 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.
Eureka
How many people live in Eureka
- Population1,840 plus or minus 424
- Median age42.4
- Population under 18545 plus or minus 173
- Share under 1829.6 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Population 65 and over370 plus or minus 121
- Share 65 and over20.1 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Households610 plus or minus 127
- Family households388 plus or minus 102
- Share of households that are families63.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Eureka
Income and work in Eureka
- Median household income$38,750 plus or minus $20,418
- Per capita income$21,721 plus or minus $4,638
- Civilian labor force810 plus or minus 215
- Employed776 plus or minus 216
- Unemployed34 plus or minus 29
- Unemployment rate4.2 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Adults 25 and over1,226 plus or minus 262
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.8 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.8 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Eureka
Housing in Eureka
- Housing units664
- Occupied units610 plus or minus 127
- Vacant units54 plus or minus 42
- Vacancy rate8.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Owner occupied479 plus or minus 131
- Renter occupied131 plus or minus 69
- Ownership rate78.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$172,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,038
- Annual rent as a share of median income32.1 percent plus or minus 18.0
- Single family units412 plus or minus 107
- Share single family62.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more42 plus or minus 36
- Share in buildings of two or more6.3 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Mobile homes210 plus or minus 77
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Eureka
How Eureka gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute582 plus or minus 205
- Commuting under 15 minutes470 plus or minus 178
- Share commuting under 15 minutes80.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more56 plus or minus 44
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more9.6 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Drove alone57.7 percent plus or minus 15.4
- Carpooled10.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked7.1 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Worked from home22.3 percent plus or minus 11.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Eureka
SBA 7(a) lending to Eureka borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,035,000
- Average approval$258,750
- Median approval$265,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$645,000
- Largest approval$645,000
- Jobs supported9
- Jobs per approval2.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Lincoln County, not Eureka
Lincoln County context, not Eureka figures
These are Lincoln County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Eureka measurements.
- Establishments in Lincoln County671
- Employment at those establishments, Lincoln County4,520
- Covered employment, Lincoln County6,260
- Average annual pay, Lincoln County$47,582
- Average weekly wage, Lincoln County$915
- Housing units permitted, Lincoln County17
- Of those, single family, Lincoln County11
- County product, 2024, Lincoln County$880,457,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lincoln County9.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lincoln County$85,024
Every figure in this section is published for Lincoln County as a whole and is not a measurement of Eureka. 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
Eureka questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Eureka, Montana?
1,840, in 610 households. Eureka town covers 1.33 square miles of land, which is 1,387 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Eureka in?
Lincoln 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 Eureka?
$38,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $172,000. Median gross rent is $1,038 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Eureka businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $1.0 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $265,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Eureka, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Eureka borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Eureka. 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 Eureka figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lincoln 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 Eureka.
Is zoning published for Eureka?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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