Denton, Montana.
Typical home $290,501 (+9.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,070 (+236%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,281 +10%
- $264,221$290,501 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $106,330 +58%
- $184,171$290,501 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.
- Denton$1,525
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Denton, MT rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denton, Fergus County, Montana
Denton is a town of 205 people in Fergus County. Unemployment in Fergus County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fergus County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denton is a very small town in Fergus County, Montana, where people tend to know one another and daily life moves at an unhurried pace. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is on the light side, falling as a mix of rain and melted snow across the year. Typical home values here sit above what the county's household incomes might suggest, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in the building trades and in shops. A good number work from home. Across Fergus County, some of the largest workplaces are Central Montana Medical Center, a critical access hospital, and Century Companies, a road construction firm. Unemployment across the county is low and has stayed close to where it stood a year earlier, and the county has added a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are a longer drive away. Ackley Lake State Park is a protected area suited to a day out. Arrow Creek and Big Spring Creek are rivers where people go to fish or walk the banks, and Coffee Creek and Dry Wolf Creek are more small waterways in the same stretch of country.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What people in Fergus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fergus County had 4,697 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 49°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Denton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fergus County
- Central Montana Medical CenterCritical access hospital222FTE
- Lewistown Elem SchoolsSchool district139FTE
- Century CompaniesRoad construction123
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores104
- Spika Design and ManufacturingFabricated structural metal manufacturing72
- Fergus H S SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior48
- Kiewit Infrastructure CoBridge construction36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 739 people in all across the county; Denton 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 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Denton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Fergus County.
Denton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denton$290,501
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Denton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.