Ballantine, Montana.
Typical home $381,510 (+2.2% in a year). Billings, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,104 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,234 +2%
- $373,276$381,510 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,342 +21%
- $314,168$381,510 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Ballantine$2,002
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Ballantine, MT rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ballantine, Yellowstone County, Montana
Ballantine, in Yellowstone County, had 293 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Yellowstone County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yellowstone County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Ballantine is a very small community in Yellowstone County, Montana, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what a typical household in many parts of the country would expect to pay, and the county's household incomes sit at a middling level. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm to hot by July. Precipitation is on the light side across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Very few adults in the community hold a four-year degree. Across Yellowstone County, the largest workplaces include Billings Clinic, St Vincent Healthcare and Billings Elem Schools, and the county's unemployment rate has stayed roughly where it was a year earlier, with the number of jobs holding nearly steady.
Things to do. A short drive away are protected areas tied to the region's history: the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and Pompeys Pillar National Monument. A longer drive brings you to Pictograph Cave, an archaeological site, and to the Yellowstone Art Museum. Lake Elmo State Park is also a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Yellowstone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yellowstone County had 87,416 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 55°. About 34 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntley Experiment Station weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yellowstone County
- Billings ClinicGeneral hospital3,738FTE
- Billings Clinic Downtown CampusMds' offices1,342
- Billings Elem SchoolsSchool district1,274FTE
- St Vincent HealthcareGeneral hospital1,234FTE
- Billings H S SchoolsSchool district568FTE
- St Johns Lutheran MinistriesNursing homes534
- Montana State University BillingsUniversity or college507
- CHSPetroleum refineries462
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 178 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,378 people in all across the county; Ballantine has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ballantine’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Yellowstone County and the Billings, MT metro.
Ballantine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ballantine$381,510
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Ballantine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ballantine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.