Bear Dance vs Swan Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Bear Dance and Swan Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

Bear Dance and Swan Lake are places in Montana. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Bear Dance has the higher population (262 vs 226 in Swan Lake). Swan Lake has the higher median household income ($78,125 vs $71,458 in Bear Dance). Bear Dance has the higher median home value ($570,000 vs $492,900 in Swan Lake).

Population, income & housing

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
Population	262	226
Median age	58.4 yrs	43.6 yrs
Median household income	$71,458	$78,125
Median home value	$570,000	$492,900
Housing units	252	195
Homeownership rate	83.6%	92.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	40.7%	30.1%
Unemployment rate	10.3%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
Population	282 → 262 (-7.1%)	168 → 226 (+34.5%)
Median household income	$54,338 → $71,458 (+31.5%)	$65,250 → $78,125 (+19.7%)
Median home value	$2,000,001 → $570,000 (-71.5%)	$310,000 → $492,900 (+59.0%)

Bear Dance

Population

282262

Median household income

$54,338$71,458

Median home value

$2,000,001$570,000

Swan Lake

Population

168226

Median household income

$65,250$78,125

Median home value

$310,000$492,900

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
Under 5	0.0%	9.7%
5 to 17	2.3%	4.9%
18 to 24	5.0%	0.0%
25 to 34	0.0%	25.2%
35 to 44	6.9%	13.3%
45 to 54	27.9%	4.9%
55 to 64	18.3%	10.6%
65 to 74	35.9%	11.9%
75 and over	3.8%	19.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	76.7%	98.2%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	8.4%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.9%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	14.9%	0.9%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
No high school diploma	0.0%	3.1%
High school graduate	17.7%	30.6%
Some college or associate's	41.6%	36.3%
Bachelor's degree	15.2%	27.5%
Graduate or professional degree	25.5%	2.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
Drove alone	53.7%	67.7%
Carpooled	0.0%	5.2%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	5.3%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	41.1%	22.9%
Other means	0.0%	4.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
1-unit, detached	84.5%	95.4%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	11.1%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	2.4%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	2.0%	4.6%

Poverty & households

	Bear Dance	Swan Lake
Poverty rate	6.9%	16.4%
Average household size	2.15	2.51
Mean commute (minutes)	22	32
Median year structure built	1974	1987