Hays, MT
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Hays, MT: 1 USPS ZIP, population 974. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet HAYS-MT · Hays, MT 1 ZIPs · 974 pop · #20174/25278 · Blaine County
INC-MID · RANK-LOWER · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-MID $54,500
- RANK-LOWER #20174/25278
- BELOW-PEER under Turner
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-LOW 58% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 974
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $80,800
Nearest income peer: Turner, MT (+ $2,722 income $)
Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Hays
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Hays on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Hays · this city · lowest
Hays · this city · lowest
$54,500 median HH income
- Turner · near
Turner · near
$57,222 median HH income
- Harlem · near
Harlem · near
$63,869 median HH income
- Chinook · near
Chinook · near
$73,906 median HH income
- Hogeland · highest
Hogeland · highest
$87,841 median HH income
What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Hays, MT sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- 20th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 974
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $54,500
- avg ZIP median income
Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.
Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($54,500 average) · poverty 22.2%. The primary code (59527) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (58.0%) for this income tier, rent $625 may matter more than the home-value average.
Within Montana, Melstone is the closest lower-income city and Hobson the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Hays.
ZIP Codes in Hays, MT
These ZIP codes sit in Blaine County, which covers 7 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Hays. See the Blaine County roll-up →
Every one of the 4 cities sharing Blaine County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Hays, Harlem, Chinook and Turner among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Hogeland marks the far end of that range at $87,841, 61% above Hays.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59527 | 974 | 2 | America/Denver |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Hays, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →
Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →
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