AREA DEMOGRAPHICS

According to a study of the Downtown Billings Retail Market, completed in December of 2001 by the Center for Applied Economic Research, MSU-Billings, the retail district in downtown Billings serves a metropolitan population in excess of 100,000.  (Note:  As part of the Urban Renewal Plan of the Expanded North 27th Street Tax Increment Financing District, we will be updating this information SOON.)

The region that makes up the Billings trade area consists of 314,000 people of which thirty percent live in Billings.  Almost 13,500 people live in downtown and the adjacent neighborhoods, and over 7,000 people work downtown.  An additional 4,000 people work in the medical and university corridor just north of downtown.  Billings is home to almost 30,000 households with children, with seventy percent of these households living in the zip codes that include downtown and the area just west of downtown.

Downtown Billings draws visitors from each of the surrounding counties in the region during a typical autumn week.  Based on vehicle parking counts, Billings receives approximately 250 to 300 visits from the region, plus an addition 350 to 400 from outside the region during a typical autumn week.  During lunchtime from 11 AM to 1 PM on a typical autumn weekday, there are approximately 4,500 to 5000 pedestrian crossings at intersections downtown.  These pedestrians are young and old alike, but are predominately between the ages of thirty and fifty.

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