$21.47M a year in installed residential gutter demand across 7 metro and micropolitan areas — #47 of 52 (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico).
The Montana gutter market is about $21.47M a year in installed residential demand (0.2% of the US total), ranking #47 of 52 states and jurisdictions (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, where modeled). The largest metro is Billings, MT at $7.13M of Montana demand. Statewide, the market is roughly 10,081 jobs a year: $17.39M replacement on existing homes and $4.08M new single-family construction.
Every modeled metro with homes in Montana. A metro that crosses a state line shows only the share of its demand inside Montana; firm counts, scores and saturation describe the whole metro. Each links to its full market file.
| # | Metro | Annual demand | Share of state | Opportunity score | Demand / firm | Saturation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billings, MT | $7.13M | 33.2% | 67.3 | $165.85K | Crowded |
| 2 | Bozeman, MT | $3.25M | 15.1% | 57.3 | $154.67K | Crowded |
| 3 | Great Falls, MT | $2.84M | 13.2% | 55.8 | $710.62K | Balanced |
| 4 | Missoula, MT | $2.75M | 12.8% | 53.5 | $229.27K | Balanced |
| 5 | Kalispell, MT | $2.34M | 10.9% | 45.3 | $179.63K | Crowded |
| 6 | Helena, MT | $2.07M | 9.6% | 45.7 | $82.61K | Crowded |
| 7 | Butte, MT | $1.10M | 5.1% | 46.6 | $1.10M | Wide Open |
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Montana's metro areas had 230,484 single-family detached homes in the 2019–23 Census survey, against 215,661 in 2014–18: the stock grew 6.9% over five years. Population changed +7.5% over the same years. Those homes are the base gutter replacement demand is sized on. The dollar market size itself has no measured history, so no growth rate is published for it.
Census Building Permits Survey, 7 metros whose primary state is Montana and that report every year.
NOAA Storm Events, 7 metros, every year loaded. Hail pulls gutter replacement forward.
The Montana gutter market is about $21.47M a year in installed residential demand (0.2% of the US total), ranking #47 of 52 states and jurisdictions (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, where modeled). The largest metro is Billings, MT at $7.13M of Montana demand. Statewide, the market is roughly 10,081 jobs a year: $17.39M replacement on existing homes and $4.08M new single-family construction.
Billings, MT $7.13M; Bozeman, MT $3.25M; Great Falls, MT $2.84M; Missoula, MT $2.75M; Kalispell, MT $2.34M. 7 metro and micropolitan areas in Montana are modeled.
By NextTerritory's opportunity score (0-100, a national percentile blend of seven components: market size, growth, affluence, storm exposure, climate, housing age and competition): Billings, MT 67.3; Bozeman, MT 57.3; Great Falls, MT 55.8. The score is the same national scale for every metro, so it compares across state lines.
Saturation compares each metro's annual gutter demand with its count of specialty contractor establishments (BLS QCEW). Across Montana's metros: 1 Wide Open; 2 Balanced; 4 Crowded. Land Grab is the least crowded cohort nationally, Knife Fight the most.
Montana's metro areas had 230,484 single-family detached homes in the 2019–23 Census survey, against 215,661 in 2014–18: the stock grew 6.9% over five years. Population changed +7.5% over the same years. Those homes are the base gutter replacement demand is sized on. The dollar market size itself has no measured history, so no growth rate is published for it.
Bottom-up, metro by metro: owner-occupied single-family homes divided by the line's service life, adjusted for housing age and hail exposure, priced at the model's average ticket, plus single-family permits at a builder price. Metros that cross a state line are split by single-family housing in each county. Rural counties outside a metro are not modeled.
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NextTerritory (2026). Montana Gutter Market Size. https://nextterritory.com/us-gutter-market/montana. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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