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26 August 2019 — 1338 mdt

In Cascade County, the population changes but doesn’t grow

Then Montana’s second largest county, Cascade County’s 1970 population was 81,802. Forty-eight years later, Cascade’s population was 81,643. During the same 48-year-period, Montana’s population grew from 694,409 to 1,062,305.

Cascade is stagnant, and now only Montana’s fifth largest county, but the rest of Montana’s six most populous counties are growing at a healthy clip.

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