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Funeral homes in the Great Falls, MT metro area
How the Great Falls, MT metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $5.1M
- On funerals · $142 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.7M
- 2.5 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.8
- 62% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 85,029
- +0.7% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 3 funeral homes in the Great Falls metro area. That is 0.8 per 10,000 households, 62% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Household spending on funerals in the Great Falls metro area comes to about $5.1M a year: $142 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That is about $1.7M of household spending for each home on map listings, 2.5 times the U.S. figure of $679K.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Great Falls metro area was 3 in 2023. That is one for every 11,872 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Great Falls metro area grew 0.7%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 3 funeral homes on map listings, the Great Falls metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Great Falls metro area compares
The same measures for Montana and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Great Falls metro area | Montana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.7M | $757K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 11,872 | 8,824 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −5.4% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.7% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $142 | $144 | $143 |
| Median household income | $67,690 | $72,509 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 68 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3
- Employees, 2023
- 38
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 30 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Great Falls metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Great Falls metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 85,029+0.7% since 2020
- Households
- 35,615
- Median age
- 40.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 2,698 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 31
- Median household income
- $67,690+35.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $89,832
- Median home value
- $265,300
- Jobs located here
- 35,854
- Daytime population
- 84,523Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Montana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Missoula, MT | 72 | 5 | 0.9 | $1.3M | +4.7% | #62 of 377 |
| 2Billings, MT | 63 | 11 | 1.4 | $1M | +4.8% | #104 of 377 |
| 3Helena, MT | 59 | 8 | 2.0 | $670K | +7.7% | #129 of 377 |
| 4Bozeman, MT | 53 | 7 | 1.4 | $746K | +7.7% | #156 of 377 |
| Great Falls, MT | Not scored | 3 | 0.8 | $1.7M | +0.7% |
Other business types in the Great Falls metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Great Falls, MT metro area?
The Great Falls metro area has 3 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Great Falls, MT metro area spend on funerals?
About $5.1M a year, or $142 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 99, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $1.7M per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 35,615 households in the Great Falls metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Great Falls, MT metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Great Falls metro area has 0.8 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 62% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $1.7M, 2.5 times the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Great Falls metro area would have about 7, against 3 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 11,872 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Great Falls, MT metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Great Falls metro area at 85,029 people in 2025, up 0.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 35,615 households. Median household income in the Great Falls metro area is $67,690, 16% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 35.6%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Great Falls metro area has no market score for funeral homes: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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