Townsend, Montana

Townsend population, 2020 to 2024

Townsend added 377 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +20.6%. In the latest year it moved by +63.

Townsend covers 1.53 square miles of land, for 1,444 people per square mile of land. The median Montana place of 5,000+ has 2,232, so Townsend is less dense than the typical town.

What county Townsend is in

All of Townsend's residents live in Broadwater County, which had 8,302 residents in 2024. Townsend holds 26.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Townsend

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Townsend by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 59644. 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 Townsend is

The Census internal point of Townsend is at 46.319200, -111.519600. Helena, the capital, is 30.0 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is East Helena, MT (2,239 people), 26.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 146.9 miles away.

Daylight in Townsend

At 46.32° N, Townsend gets about 15 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Townsend

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Montana, measured between internal points. The closest is East Helena, 26.5 miles away, with 2,239 people.