Miles City, Montana

Miles City population, 2020 to 2024

Miles City added 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by -39. Among 19 Montana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +5.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Montana has 9,256 people, so Miles City is 91% of it.

Miles City covers 3.36 square miles of land, for 2,502 people per square mile of land. The median Montana place of 5,000+ has 2,232, so Miles City is denser than the typical town.

What county Miles City is in

All of Miles City's residents live in Custer County, which had 11,964 residents in 2024. Miles City holds 70.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Miles City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Miles City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 59301. 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 Miles City is

The Census internal point of Miles City is at 46.405800, -105.838900. Helena, the capital, is 294.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sheridan, WY (19,813 people), 123.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 136.8 miles away.

Daylight in Miles City

At 46.41° N, Miles City gets about 15 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Miles City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Montana, measured between internal points. The closest is Forsyth, 40.9 miles away, with 1,643 people.