East Helena, Montana

East Helena population, 2020 to 2024

East Helena added 291 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.9%. In the latest year it moved by +109.

East Helena covers 4.05 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 553 people per square mile of land. The median Montana place of 5,000+ has 2,232, so East Helena is less dense than the typical town.

What county East Helena is in

All of East Helena's residents live in Lewis and Clark County, which had 75,129 residents in 2024. East Helena holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in East Helena

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps East Helena by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 59635. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where East Helena is

The Census internal point of East Helena is at 46.584500, -111.920800. Helena, the capital, is 4.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Helena, MT (34,729 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 170.3 miles away.

Daylight in East Helena

At 46.58° N, East Helena gets about 15 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near East Helena

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Montana, measured between internal points. The closest is Helena, 4.9 miles away, with 34,729 people.