Dillon, Montana.
Typical home $391,646 (+3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,191 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,243 +3%
- $380,403$391,646 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,074 +25%
- $314,572$391,646 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.
- Dillon$2,056
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Dillon, MT rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana
Dillon is a city of 3,880 people in Beaverhead County. Half its households earn more than $61,134 a year and half less, against $61,268 across Beaverhead County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Beaverhead County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dillon is a small city and the seat of Beaverhead County, and its people are younger on average than in many towns of its size, which fits a place with a university in it. Incomes run close to the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent. Winters are cold, with December highs hovering around freezing, and summers are warm without being hot; snow and rain are both light across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with farming, forestry and mining and the building trades also well represented. The biggest workplaces in Dillon include The University of Montana-Western, the Dillon elementary school district and Safeway. Very few people work from home, and unemployment across Beaverhead County is low and a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Clark's Lookout State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Blacktail Deer Creek, a stream, runs in or beside town as well. A longer drive away are the Beaverhead River and the Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest, a large protected area. Maverick Mountain Ski Area, also a longer drive away, gives the winters something to do.
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- 1,764households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beaverhead County had 4,054 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 48°. About 11 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dillon U Of Montana Western weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dillon
- The University of Montana-WesternUniversity or college222
- Dillon Elem SchoolsSchool district100FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores95
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture61
- Beaverhead County H S SchoolsSchool district48FTE
- Ranch and Home SupplyRetail45
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 140 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dillon’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 Beaverhead County.
Dillon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dillon$391,646
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Dillon listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Dillon19.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dillon51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dillon10
Zip codes with a Dillon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dillon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.