Rank 3 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Montana

Montana gained through both migration channels — 50,720 from other states, 2,579 from other countries — while recording 3,360 more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.

Domestic migration+50,720+44.6 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.
International migration+2,579+2.3 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.
Births minus deaths−3,360−3.0 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

Montana, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
YearDomesticInternationalBirthsDeathsNaturalScale
2021+20,539+71310,84112,141−1,300
2022+15,661+98911,18212,886−1,704
2023+9,110+37111,02411,392−368
2024+5,410+50611,26811,256+12

Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file ↗

Montana: where people went — Applied America