Fromberg, Montana.
Typical home $386,364 (+8.1% in a year). Billings, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,327 (+189%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,869 +8%
- $357,495$386,364 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,227 +47%
- $262,137$386,364 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.
- Fromberg$2,028
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Fromberg, MT rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fromberg, Carbon County, Montana
Fromberg is a town of 392 people in Carbon County. Half its households earn more than $64,500 a year and half less, against $80,261 across Carbon County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Carbon County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carbon County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fromberg is a very small town in Carbon County, Montana, where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal, which makes it a place where many people have more tied up in their house than in their paycheck. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Precipitation is light, as it is across much of this dry part of the state.
Work. People who live here work mostly in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the work leans toward the land and local services. Across Carbon County, the biggest employers include Beartooth Billings Clinic, Red Lodge Elem Schools and the Forest Service. Unemployment in the county is low, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Fromberg Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is the nearest place to spend an evening. Rock Creek is a river a short drive away. For a longer outing, Red Lodge Mountain Resort is a ski area, and Pryor Mountains National Forest is protected land, both a longer drive away.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
What people in Carbon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carbon County had 3,141 jobs in 2025, 2.9% 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 87° and lows near 53°. About 30 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridger North weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carbon County
- Beartooth Billings ClinicCritical access hospital81FTE
- Red Lodge Elem SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- Bridger K-12 SchoolsSchool district42FTE
- Joliet Elem SchoolsSchool district41FTE
- Belfry K-12 SchoolsSchool district39FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture35
- Red Lodge H S SchoolsSchool district23FTE
- Roberts K-12 SchoolsSchool district23FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 164 people in all across the county; Fromberg 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fromberg’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 Carbon County and the Billings, MT metro.
Fromberg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fromberg$386,364
- 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.
- Fromberg7
Zip codes with a Fromberg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fromberg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.