Browning, Montana.
Typical home $118,745 (+11.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$371 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,231 +11%
- $106,515$118,745 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,420 +26%
- $94,325$118,745 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.
- Browning$623
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Browning, MT rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Browning, Glacier County, Montana
Browning, in Glacier County, had 1,018 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $34,250 a year and half less, against $46,875 across Glacier County; 46% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Glacier County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Browning is a small community in Glacier County, Montana, and home to a small population. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs that stay below freezing, while August is the warmest, with pleasant daytime highs. A year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Browning are Browning Elem Schools, Indian Health Service and Browning H S Schools. Unemployment across Glacier County is slightly higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has held about level. Very few people work from home.
Things to do. Water draws people out of town, though every lake on the list is a longer drive away. Saint Mary Lake is the best known, and Two Medicine Lake is another lake a longer drive off. The Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 315households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 46%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Glacier County had 4,214 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 29° and lows near 15°; warmest in August, with highs near 74° and lows near 44°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Glacier weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Browning
- Browning Elem SchoolsSchool district293FTE
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services221
- Browning H S SchoolsSchool district110FTE
- Indian AffairsFederal government · Department of the Interior33
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Browning’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Glacier County.
Browning home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Browning$118,745
- 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 Browning address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Browning — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.