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Plains town, Montana: commercial real estate data.
Plains town is a Census town of 1,195 people across 0.61 square miles of land, in Sanders County. Median household income is $25,491, 53.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.2 m.
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Plains
What Plains is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.61 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,944 plus or minus 472
- County holding the largest share of its areaSanders 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.
Plains
How many people live in Plains
- Population1,195 plus or minus 290
- Median age43.3
- Population under 18132 plus or minus 67
- Share under 1811.0 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Population 65 and over262 plus or minus 94
- Share 65 and over21.9 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Households631 plus or minus 158
- Family households199 plus or minus 67
- Share of households that are families31.5 percent plus or minus 7.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Plains
Income and work in Plains
- Median household income$25,491 plus or minus $8,554
- Per capita income$41,283 plus or minus $22,423
- Civilian labor force637 plus or minus 205
- Employed515 plus or minus 168
- Unemployed122 plus or minus 105
- Unemployment rate19.2 percent plus or minus 15.3
- Adults 25 and over827 plus or minus 195
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.4 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.3 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Plains
Housing in Plains
- Housing units707 plus or minus 164
- Occupied units631 plus or minus 158
- Vacant units76 plus or minus 47
- Vacancy rate10.7 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Owner occupied335 plus or minus 104
- Renter occupied296 plus or minus 129
- Ownership rate53.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$248,300 plus or minus $118,802
- Median gross rent, monthly$843
- Annual rent as a share of median income39.7 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Single family units370 plus or minus 105
- Share single family52.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more111 plus or minus 71
- Share in buildings of two or more15.7 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Mobile homes208 plus or minus 110
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Plains
How Plains gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute424 plus or minus 167
- Commuting under 15 minutes321 plus or minus 136
- Share commuting under 15 minutes75.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more73 plus or minus 60
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.2 percent plus or minus 12.4
- Drove alone51.8 percent plus or minus 15.1
- Carpooled15.9 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Public transport1.4 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Walked15.1 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Worked from home15.9 percent plus or minus 7.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Plains
SBA 7(a) lending to Plains borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,168,300
- Average approval$542,075
- Median approval$886,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$886,000
- Largest approval$886,000
- Jobs supported24
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Sanders County, not Plains
Sanders County context, not Plains figures
These are Sanders County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Plains measurements.
- Establishments in Sanders County394
- Employment at those establishments, Sanders County2,585
- Covered employment, Sanders County3,306
- Average annual pay, Sanders County$45,909
- Average weekly wage, Sanders County$883
- County product, 2024, Sanders County$552,158,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sanders County4.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sanders County$91,054
Every figure in this section is published for Sanders County as a whole and is not a measurement of Plains. 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
Plains questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Plains, Montana?
1,195, in 631 households. Plains town covers 0.61 square miles of land, which is 1,944 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Plains in?
Sanders 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 Plains?
$25,491. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $248,300. Median gross rent is $843 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Plains businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $2.2 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $886,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Plains, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Plains borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Plains. only 1 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 Plains figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sanders 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 Plains.
Is zoning published for Plains?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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