Scobey, MT

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Scobey, MT: 1 USPS ZIP, population 1,349. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet SCOBEY-MT · Scobey, MT 1 ZIPs · 1,349 pop · #20409/25278 · Daniels County

INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-MID $53,875
  • RANK-BOTTOM #20409/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Whitetail
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 82% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 1,349
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $190,600

Nearest income peer: Whitetail, MT (+ $23,125 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 Scobey

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Scobey on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

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.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Scobey, 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.

19th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
1,349
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$53,875
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 ($53,875 average) · poverty 11.5%. The primary code (59263) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (81.8%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Scobey as a pure owner town.

Within Montana, Geraldine is the closest lower-income city and Lima the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Scobey.

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ZIP Codes in Scobey, MT

These ZIP codes sit in Daniels County, which covers 4 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Scobey. See the Daniels County roll-up →

Every one of the 2 cities sharing Daniels County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Scobey, Peerless and Whitetail among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Peerless marks the far end of that range at $140,938, 162% above Scobey.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
59263 1,349 1 America/Denver

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Scobey, 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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