Joliet, Montana.
Typical home $521,042 (+7.9% in a year). Billings, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,676 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,335 +8%
- $482,707$521,042 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $134,791 +35%
- $386,251$521,042 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.
- Joliet$2,735
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Joliet, MT rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Joliet, Carbon County, Montana
Joliet is a town of 577 people in Carbon County. Half its households earn more than $77,396 a year and half less, against $80,261 across Carbon County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Joliet is a very small Montana town, one of the smaller communities in Carbon County. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are high. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect in a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while summers are warm, and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Carbon County, the largest workplaces include Beartooth Billings Clinic, Red Lodge Elem Schools and Joliet Elem Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs. Many residents face a fairly long commute, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. Rock Creek, a river, is a short drive away, and the Fromberg Opera House, a theatre, is also close by. A longer drive leads to Red Lodge Mountain Resort, a ski area, and to Cooney State Park, a protected area. Those who want more of the outdoors can also head out to the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River.
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- 14%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
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 December, with highs near 36° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 50°. About 51 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Joliet weather station, 2 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; Joliet has two 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 floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Joliet’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 Carbon County and the Billings, MT metro.
Joliet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Joliet$521,042
- 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.
- Joliet15
Zip codes with a Joliet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Joliet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.