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30041 County FIPS Code

Hill County

Montana · County seat: Havre · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 30041 is Hill County, Montana. With a population of 16,238 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #12 in Montana and #2080 nationally. The state FIPS code for Montana is 30. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

30041

State FIPS

30

MT

Population

16,238

2022 ACS · #2080 nationally

Density

5.6/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

2,899

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Nonmetro — urban 2.5K–19.9K, not adjacent to metro

RUCC 7

How This FIPS Code Works

30 041
30 = State FIPS (Montana)
041 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 30041 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 30 (Montana) with the 3-digit county identifier 041. Together they uniquely identify Hill County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 30041

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 30041.

Median Household Income

$58,427

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

16.9%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

33.4

ACS B01002_001E

Adjacent Counties (3)

Counties that share a border with Hill County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 30041.

Federal Datasets Using Code 30041

FIPS code 30041 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 30041 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 30041
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:041",
    "in":   "state:30",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Hill County, Montana, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 30041
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '30041';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '30'
  AND county_fips = '041';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 30041 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 30041
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "30",
  county    = "041",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 30 (not 30) and 041 (not 41) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Hill County

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Hill County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
59525 100.0%
59532 100.0%
59530 100.0%
59528 100.0%
59540 96.1%
59501 95.8%
59521 81.6%
59531 27.0%
59523 1.1%
59520 0.5%

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