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Montana / Silver Bow County

How's Silver Bow County?

One question about Silver Bow County, Montana, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Silver Bow County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$1,118+5.4%+26.6%+44.2%2nd quartile1,001 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 16 of 56 in Montana
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives16.5K jobs−0.1%+9.9%+4.8%2nd quartile1,068 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 7 of 56 in Montana

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air2025 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days84.9% of days+14.4 pts+6.0 pts+19.5 pts2nd quartile287 of 916 counties in 2025 · 11 of 18 in Montana
Median daily AQI2025 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate28 AQI−3.0 AQI+6.0 AQI−11.0 AQILowest quartile831 of 916 counties in 2025 · 9 of 18 in Montana

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Silver Bow County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Silver Bow County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.