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Hill County's economic outlook not so rosy, but has opportunities

Hill County is expected to see job growth close to historical averages of about 1.5 percent in 2018, but then see a slowdown in the years ahead, Patrick Barkey, director of the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research said Wednesday during the bureau's 43rd Economic Outlook Seminar at Montana State University-Northern.

Barkey presented the data about Hill County in Hensler Auditorium in Northern's Applied Technology Center.

He said that in 2017, the county saw less than a percentage point of growth. When the bureau did their forecast in 2016, they thought Hill Co...

 

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