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Big Timber city, Montana: commercial real estate data.
Big Timber city is a Census city of 1,611 people across 0.98 square miles of land, in Sweet Grass County. Median household income is $66,898, 80.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $4.9 m.
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Big Timber
What Big Timber is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.98 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,648
- County holding the largest share of its areaSweet Grass 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 Timber
How many people live in Big Timber
- Population1,611
- Median age43.6
- Population under 18335 plus or minus 86
- Share under 1820.8 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Population 65 and over469 plus or minus 111
- Share 65 and over29.1 percent
- Households707
- Family households401 plus or minus 81
- Share of households that are families56.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Timber
Income and work in Big Timber
- Median household income$66,898
- Per capita income$38,530
- Civilian labor force811
- Employed781
- Unemployed30 plus or minus 23
- Unemployment rate3.7 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Adults 25 and over1,153
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.2 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.7 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Big Timber
- Housing units784
- Occupied units707
- Vacant units77 plus or minus 45
- Vacancy rate9.8 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Owner occupied568
- Renter occupied139 plus or minus 62
- Ownership rate80.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$278,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,109 plus or minus $292
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.9 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Single family units585
- Share single family74.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more124 plus or minus 61
- Share in buildings of two or more15.8 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Mobile homes75 plus or minus 44
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Big Timber gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute683
- Commuting under 15 minutes432 plus or minus 111
- Share commuting under 15 minutes63.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more204 plus or minus 63
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.9 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Drove alone65.8 percent
- Carpooled9.3 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Public transport4.0 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Walked6.7 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Worked from home12.5 percent plus or minus 7.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Timber
SBA loans in Big Timber (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$4,927,000
- Average approval$1,642,333
- Median approval$70,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,842,000
- Largest approval$4,842,000
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval2.7
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Big Timber
SBA loans in Big Timber (504)
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$526,000
- Average approval$175,333
- Median approval$189,000
- Largest approval$242,000
- Jobs supported15
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sweet Grass County, not Big Timber
Sweet Grass County context, not Big Timber figures
These are Sweet Grass 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 Timber measurements.
- Establishments in Sweet Grass County187
- Employment at those establishments, Sweet Grass County1,361
- Covered employment, Sweet Grass County1,629
- Average annual pay, Sweet Grass County$68,954
- Average weekly wage, Sweet Grass County$1,326
- Housing units permitted, Sweet Grass County1
- Of those, single family, Sweet Grass County1
- County product, 2024, Sweet Grass County$314,835,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sweet Grass County5.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sweet Grass County$82,117
Every figure in this section is published for Sweet Grass County as a whole and is not a measurement of Big Timber. 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 Timber questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Big Timber, Montana?
1,611, in 707 households. Big Timber city covers 0.98 square miles of land, which is 1,648 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Big Timber in?
Sweet Grass 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 Timber?
$66,898. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $278,200. Median gross rent is $1,109 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 Timber businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $4.9 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $70,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $526,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Big Timber, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Big Timber borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Big Timber. 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 Timber figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sweet Grass 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 Timber.
Is zoning published for Big Timber?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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