Dutton, Montana.
Typical home $295,954 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$979 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,567 +7%
- $277,387$295,954 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,472 +36%
- $217,482$295,954 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.
- Dutton$1,553
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Dutton, MT rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dutton, Teton County, Montana
Dutton is a town of 303 people in Teton County. Half its households earn more than $60,987 a year and half less, against $70,430 across Teton County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Teton County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Teton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dutton is a very small town on the Montana plains, where neighbors tend to know one another. Incomes run below the county's, and a typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frost and snow common, while summers are warm, and the year brings only a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in the building trades and in restaurants and hotels. A good number work from home. Across Teton County, the largest workplaces include Benefis Teton Medical Center and the Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools, and unemployment there is low and has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area is a park, also a longer drive away, and The Montana Dinosaur Center, a museum, is a longer drive away as well.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What people in Teton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Teton County had 1,831 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 50°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Choteau 8NE weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Teton County
- Benefis Teton Medical CenterCritical access hospital47FTE
- Choteau Elem SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- Fairfield Elem SchoolsSchool district31FTE
- Dutton/Brady K-12 SchoolsSchool district30FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture22
- Fairfield H S SchoolsSchool district20FTE
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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- 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 Dutton’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 Teton County.
Dutton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dutton$295,954
- 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.
- Dutton5
Zip codes with a Dutton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dutton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.