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Insurance agencies in the Butte-Silver Bow, MT area
How the Butte-Silver Bow, MT area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 49 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #272 of 537 scored small-town markets
#2 of 2 scored small-town markets based in Montana
- Listings
- 22
- 1 chain location (5%)
- Official establishments
- 17
- −15.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $29.6M
- On vehicle insurance · $1,920 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.3M
- 7% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 14.3
- 8% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 36,118
- +2.6% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on vehicle insurance in the Butte-Silver Bow area comes to about $29.6M a year: $1,920 per household, 2% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.3M per agency, 7% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
The Butte-Silver Bow area has 22 insurance agencies on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (5%) is a chain location, against 21% across the U.S. That is 14.3 per 10,000 households, 8% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Butte-Silver Bow area in 2023, down 15.0% from 2019. That is one for every 907 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
Population estimates show the Butte-Silver Bow area grew 2.6% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For insurance agencies, the Butte-Silver Bow area has a Groundwork market score of 49 (lower middle): #272 of 537 scored small-town markets and #2 of 2 scored small-town markets based in Montana.
How the Butte-Silver Bow area compares
The same measures for Montana and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies 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 | Butte-Silver Bow area | Montana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 14.3 | 16.5 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 907 | 711 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −15.0% | −9.5% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.6% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $1,920 | $2,106 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $61,754 | $72,509 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 49 | 49 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 17−15.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 59
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 221 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 24The 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 insurance agencies and brokerages in the Butte-Silver Bow 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 Butte-Silver Bow area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 36,118+2.6% since 2020
- Households
- 15,419
- Median age
- 40.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 718 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 50
- Median household income
- $61,754+35.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $80,950
- Median home value
- $255,200
- Jobs located here
- 17,312
- Daytime population
- 35,343Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Montana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kalispell, MT | 50 | 69 | 15.6 | $1.3M | +10.1% | #267 of 537 |
| 2Butte-Silver Bow, MT | 49 | 22 | 14.3 | $1.3M | +2.6% | #272 of 537 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in the Butte-Silver Bow, MT area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 22 insurance agencies in the Butte-Silver Bow area. One of them (5%) is a chain location. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023, down 15.0% from 2019.
How much do households in the Butte-Silver Bow, MT area spend on vehicle insurance?
About $29.6M a year, or $1,920 per household. That is 2% below the U.S. average (an index of 98, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 22 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $1.3M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 15,419 households in the Butte-Silver Bow area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Butte-Silver Bow, MT area compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
The Butte-Silver Bow area has 14.3 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 8% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $1.3M, 7% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, the Butte-Silver Bow area would have about 24, against 22 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 907 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. The official count fell 15.0% from 2019 to 2023, against −1.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Butte-Silver Bow, MT area growing?
Population estimates put the Butte-Silver Bow area at 36,118 people in 2025, up 2.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 15,419 households. Median household income in the Butte-Silver Bow area is $61,754, 24% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 35.1%, 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Butte-Silver Bow area scores 49 for insurance agencies (lower middle), #272 of 537 scored small-town markets.
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