1,934 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.2% since 2020)
1,430 square miles of land · 1 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
8 active community water systems list Liberty County in the area they serve, reporting 1,827 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CHESTER TOWN OF surface water · local government · MT0000173 | 870 served |
| SAGE CREEK CO WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · MT0003150 | 225 served |
| NCMRWA TIBER SERVICE AREA buys surface water · local government · MT0004719 | 200 served |
| RIVERVIEW COLONY buys surface water · private · MT0001777 | 130 served |
| SAGE CREEK COLONY groundwater · private · MT0001779 | 130 served |
| EAGLE CREEK COLONY groundwater · private · MT0003152 | 125 served |
| HI-LINE COLONY groundwater · private · MT0005185 | 92 served |
| SOUTH CHESTER WATER DIST buys surface water · private · MT0000007 | 55 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 4 people were held in Liberty County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 355 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 5.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in Liberty County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $3.2 million — $2.6 million to run schools, about $13,323 per student, plus $570,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $1 million federal.
Spent $820,000 — $819,000 to run schools, about $11,535 per student. Money in: $53,000 local (mostly property tax), $517,000 state, $321,000 federal.
Spent $1.9 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $24,785 per student, plus $274,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $583,000 state, $180,000 federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Liberty County about $2.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
10 bridges in Liberty County: 3 in good condition, 7 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-125,807 of work in Liberty County in fiscal 2025, about $-64 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Montana are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Liberty County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Liberty County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Toole County (32 mi) · Hill County (43 mi) · Chouteau County (54 mi) · Pondera County (59 mi) · Teton County (76 mi) · Cascade County (87 mi).