Kicking Horse vs Turtle Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Kicking Horse and Turtle Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Kicking Horse has the higher population (69 vs 61 in Turtle Lake). Since 2019, Kicking Horse's population has grown faster (+53.3% vs -80.8%).

Population, income & housing

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
Population	69	61
Median age	63.4 yrs	46.5 yrs
Housing units	51	46
Homeownership rate	16.3%	65.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	100.0%	39.1%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
Population	45 → 69 (+53.3%)	318 → 61 (-80.8%)
Median household income	$66,743 → $74,036 (+10.9%)	—

Kicking Horse

Population

4569

Median household income

$66,743$74,036

Turtle Lake

Population

31861

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
Under 5	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 17	0.0%	0.0%
18 to 24	0.0%	24.6%
25 to 34	0.0%	9.8%
35 to 44	0.0%	0.0%
45 to 54	29.0%	29.5%
55 to 64	52.2%	16.4%
65 to 74	10.1%	19.7%
75 and over	8.7%	0.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	71.0%	0.0%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	83.6%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	29.0%	16.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
No high school diploma	0.0%	0.0%
High school graduate	0.0%	26.1%
Some college or associate's	0.0%	34.8%
Bachelor's degree	29.0%	39.1%
Graduate or professional degree	71.0%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
Drove alone	100.0%	100.0%
Carpooled	0.0%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
1-unit, detached	84.3%	78.3%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	21.7%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	15.7%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Kicking Horse	Turtle Lake
Poverty rate	0.0%	16.4%
Average household size	1.60	1.33
Median year structure built	1984	—