10 Best Places to Retire in Montana

8. Dawson County

Cost of living: 8.5% lower than national average
Crime score: 28
Physicians per 100k: 145
Median House Value: $115,700
Insider Monkey Score: 36.5

The mainly agricultural county previously experienced an oil boom during the 1950s. Today, Dawson County is known as being a stock county, with its nutritious grass and wide plains being excellent conditions for agricultural and livestock purposes. Its county seat is Glendive, the smallest US television market in America.

7. Fallon County

Cost of living: 11.5% lower than national average
Crime score: 25
Physicians per 100k: 69
Median House Value: $101,600
Insider Monkey Score: 36.9

The county was created in 1913 from land originally from Custer County. With abundant sandstone in the area, Medicine Rocks State Park near the county seat of Baker City offers interesting sandstone formations. Native Americans used to frequent the area for the many medicinal plants that grew here.

Best Places to Retire in Montana

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