It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bigfork has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bigfork has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bigfork than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bigfork may be for you.
Being a small town, Bigfork does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Bigfork, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Bigfork is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 50.73% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bigfork in 2022 was $41,326, which is wealthy relative to Montana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $165,304 for a family of four. However, Bigfork contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bigfork is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bigfork home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bigfork residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bigfork include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Bigfork is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
