Montana
#32of 5151C+
Pillar by pillar
Starting up
How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
70+15 vs median
- Business applications per 1,000 residents2.492 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
- State tax collected per resident$4,25348 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections
Population health
One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.
46-4 vs median
- Adult obesity, 202431.0%80 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- Firearm-injury deaths per 100,000 (crude)21.812 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCDC NCIPC, CDC NCIPC 2024
Productive base
Output per worker and how much of the job base is manufacturing.
11-40 vs median
- Output per worker$143,35714 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Manufacturing share of jobs4.0%8 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labour market
How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.
77+28 vs median
- Unemployment rate3.2%82 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Employment change, latest month+0.13%72 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Prosperity
What the average person in the state actually earns.
53+1 vs median
- Per-capita personal income$72,34048 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher36.3%58 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 1-year
Housing permits and prices
Housing units authorised per 1,000 workers, and what housing costs. It counts permits issued, not buildings finished, and says nothing about industrial or infrastructure approvals.
55-3 vs median
- Housing units authorised per 1,000 workers1.178 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
- House price index (FHFA)821.732 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsFederal Housing Finance Agency
Fiscal standing
How Moody’s rates the state as a borrower: on its general-obligation bonds or, where it has none, as an issuer.
92+0 vs median
- Credit ratingAa1 · Stable92 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsMoody's, indicative 2025
Openness
Whether the state publishes in a form a machine can read: an open-data portal that answers; incentive, permit and finance records as data; and newsroom feeds.
0-51 vs median
- Open-data portal answers an APIPublished address answers nothing0 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09
- Incentive, permit & finance datasets00 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA discovery, 2026-09
- Government or agency newsroom feeds10 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09
Industrial project records
Companies in Montana named in a research file of 60 curated records, compiled October 1, 2026. Each carries the status that file gives it. None is an Applied America project. Most are foreign-owned; U.S. operators appear where the research names them as counterparties. It is not a census, and amounts are announcement scopes that are never added together.
1 record · 1 documented project
- Sibanye-StillwaterDocumented project
South Africa · PGM mining / metals recycling · Montana PGM operations and recycling
Montana; Pennsylvania; North Carolina — Existing operations
Company publishes U.S. mining and recycling operations and regional contact routes.
New U.S. capital project or open site search not established. Contact deliverability and investment authority unverified. No open site-selection mandate confirmed.
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