Emigrant vs Pray

A side-by-side comparison of Emigrant and Pray: population, income, housing, and more.

Emigrant and Pray are places in Montana. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Pray has the higher population (1,018 vs 387 in Emigrant). Pray has the higher median household income ($102,143 vs $44,375 in Emigrant). Since 2019, Emigrant's population has grown faster (+42.8% vs +35.9%).

Population, income & housing

	Emigrant	Pray
Population	387	1,018
Median age	55.1 yrs	59.1 yrs
Median household income	$44,375	$102,143
Median home value	—	$601,400
Median gross rent	$824	—
Housing units	244	601
Homeownership rate	74.9%	90.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	61.0%	32.3%
Unemployment rate	5.8%	4.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Emigrant	Pray
Population	271 → 387 (+42.8%)	749 → 1,018 (+35.9%)
Median household income	$37,958 → $44,375 (+16.9%)	$65,972 → $102,143 (+54.8%)
Median home value	—	$421,900 → $601,400 (+42.5%)
Median gross rent	$960 → $824 (-14.2%)	$1,184 → $1,071 (-9.5%)

Emigrant

Population

271387

Median household income

$37,958$44,375

Median gross rent

$960$824

Pray

Population

7491,018

Median household income

$65,972$102,143

Median home value

$421,900$601,400

Median gross rent

$1,184$1,071

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Emigrant	Pray
Under 5	0.0%	2.1%
5 to 17	5.2%	13.3%
18 to 24	0.0%	2.9%
25 to 34	34.1%	3.3%
35 to 44	4.9%	12.9%
45 to 54	4.9%	9.3%
55 to 64	10.3%	27.3%
65 to 74	30.0%	24.1%
75 and over	10.6%	4.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Emigrant	Pray
White (non-Hispanic)	100.0%	85.6%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	12.5%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	1.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Emigrant	Pray
No high school diploma	5.7%	0.0%
High school graduate	18.8%	23.6%
Some college or associate's	14.4%	44.1%
Bachelor's degree	51.5%	24.0%
Graduate or professional degree	9.5%	8.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Emigrant	Pray
Drove alone	74.1%	64.7%
Carpooled	10.9%	8.9%
Public transit	0.0%	4.7%
Walked	0.0%	1.7%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	15.0%	16.4%
Other means	0.0%	3.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Emigrant	Pray
1-unit, detached	34.0%	88.9%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	2.3%
2 to 4 units	13.5%	0.5%
5 to 19 units	10.7%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	41.8%	8.3%

Poverty & households

	Emigrant	Pray
Poverty rate	37.2%	5.2%
Average household size	1.65	2.57
Mean commute (minutes)	39	32
Median year structure built	1990	1998