Moving to Plentywood: Pros, Cons & What to Know
Moving to Plentywood means moving to a small, far-northeastern Montana Sheridan County agricultural town hard against the Canadian border, with genuinely, substantially affordable home prices weighed honestly against a real, disclosed, sustained population decline and an above-median property tax rate.
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Learn morePlentywood's setting at Montana's far-northeastern edge
Plentywood sits in Sheridan County, whose northern boundary is the Canada-US border -- among the most remote county seats in Montana, with an economy centered on dryland wheat, pulse crops, and cattle ranching (base record).
A real, sustained population decline -- and an even faster county-level decline
Plentywood's population ran approximately 1,611 per a 2026 projection, down from 1,669 at the 2020 Census -- a real, disclosed -3.48% cumulative decline, with Sheridan County itself declining even faster at the county level (approximately -1.66%/yr per one 2025 estimate) (base record).
Substantially affordable home prices, but a substantially elevated property tax rate
Plentywood's own median home price (approximately $103,600) runs far below Montana's statewide average, but Plentywood's own 1.29% effective property tax rate runs substantially above both the national and Montana statewide medians -- a real, disclosed tension prospective movers should understand (base record).
A real, historically cyclical agriculture-and-Bakken-adjacent-oil economy
Sheridan County's economy centers on dryland wheat and pulse crops, with Columbia Grain's pulse-processing facility a significant local employer, alongside a real, historically boom-and-bust Bakken-adjacent oil and gas sector tied to the Williston Basin this record does not characterize as an active, ongoing boom without further verification (base record).
Key takeaways
- Plentywood sits in far-northeastern Sheridan County, whose northern boundary is the Canada-US border.
- Plentywood's population runs approximately 1,611 (2026), down -3.48% since the 2020 Census, with Sheridan County itself declining even faster at the county level.
- Home prices run genuinely, substantially affordable (approximately $103,600 median), though Plentywood's own property tax RATE (1.29%) runs substantially above national and Montana statewide medians.
- Sheridan County's economy centers on dryland agriculture and cattle ranching, with a real, historically cyclical Bakken-adjacent oil presence -- confirm current job-market data directly.
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