Hobson, Montana.
Typical home $315,486 (+6.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$468 (+39%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $19,271 +7%
- $296,214$315,486 since Sep 2025
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.
- Hobson$1,656
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hobson, MT rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hobson, Judith Basin County, Montana
Hobson is a city of 179 people in Judith Basin County. Unemployment in Judith Basin County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 5.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Judith Basin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hobson is a very small town in Judith Basin County, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in August. Precipitation is on the light side, falling as rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, or in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels. Across Judith Basin County, the largest workplaces are school districts, including Stanford K-12 Schools, Hobson K-12 Schools and Geyser K-12 Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Ackley Lake State Park is a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Judith River, one of the area's rivers, and to Crystal Lake, a lake worth the trip.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 12%work from home
What people in Judith Basin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Judith Basin County had 521 jobs in 2025, 5.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 13°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 50°. About 44 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moccasin Experiment Station weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Judith Basin County
- Stanford K-12 SchoolsSchool district34FTE
- Hobson K-12 SchoolsSchool district27FTE
- Geyser K-12 SchoolsSchool district21FTE
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hobson’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 Judith Basin County.
Hobson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hobson$315,486
- 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 Hobson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hobson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.