South BrowningMT
A town of 1,538. Home to Blackfeet Community College.
Is South Browning a good place to live?
South Browning’s best subject grade is an A for cost of living; its weakest is a D− for health. South Browning is home to Blackfeet Community College. South Browning has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes South Browning stand out
Where South Browning beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| College | Students |
|---|---|
| Blackfeet Community College | 281 |
| Widest gap | South Browning | MT |
|---|---|---|
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 26.9% | 6.5% |
South Browning has grown 10% from 2010 to 2020
1,785 counted in 2010 and 1,970 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How South Browning grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Montana), ordered by how far South Browning is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to South Browning: who provides what
South Browning is unincorporated, so Glacier County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in South Browning.
A larger share of adults in South Browning feel lonely than in the typical Montana or U.S. town
For adults in South Browning, the share who say their health is fair or poor is 38%. No town among the 42 in Montana we compare has a higher share of adults who report frequent mental distress than South Browning. Nearly a quarter of adults report frequent physical distress locally, where Montana’s towns sit at 14% and U.S. towns at 14%. Among 42 Montana towns, just 3 have a lower share of adults who had a checkup this year than South Browning.
| South Browning | Montana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 19% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 14% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 10% | 12% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 18% | 17% |
| What stands out | South Browning | MT |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.1% | 9.3% |
| Fewer adults with high cholesterol | 28.4% | 32.8% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 26.9% | 6.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools in South Browning fall behind 98% of Montana districts
Its one school is below. The public schools here belong to the Browning Elementary District. South Browning’s only public school teaches 368 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browning Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 368 | D− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MT on state tests and graduation
Four seasons and pleasant summers in South Browning
Among 43 Montana towns, just 2 have a lower July high than South Browning. July afternoons reach 77° and January nights drop to 13°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Compared with most of Montana and the rest of the country, more of South Browning’s residents live below the poverty line
The top destinations are Browning (26%), East Glacier Park Village (25%) and Babb (8%). The mean commuting time in South Browning is 12 minutes. Also worth knowing: between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 177, to 327. 14% of working residents work locally here.
| South Browning | Montana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 42% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 12 minutes | 17 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 14% | 39% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest natural risk in South Browning is cold waves, at a moderate overall level
FEMA expects less storm and flood damage in South Browning than in 57% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 58% come from cold waves and 27% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0.7% of the land in South Browning is protected from building
1.4 miles of trail. Among 43 Montana towns, just 3 have a lower share of conserved land than South Browning. The density of trails for South Browning comes to 0.6 miles per square mile.
| South Browning | Montana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.7% | 9.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.6 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about South Browning
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of South Browning
About 4 of every 100 South Browning residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Montana.
Blackfeet Community College calls South Browning home
About South Browning
Census-designated place in Montana, United States
South Browning is a census-designated place (CDP) in Glacier County, Montana, United States. As of the 2020 census, South Browning had a population of 1,970. South Browning is a rural village on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. It is bordered to the north by the town of Browning.
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- Area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 4,393 ft
South Browning’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with South Browning.
| Town | MT rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Browning | — | — | A | — | D− | D− |
| North Browning | #40 | D | A | — | D− | D− |
| Browning | — | — | — | — | — | — |
South Browning has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. South Browning and North Browning report no FBI crime data of their own. Browning isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare South Browning with a neighbor →
Questions about South Browning
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is South Browning, MT expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.