Judith Gap, Montana.
Typical home $223,888 (+8.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$728 (+163%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,666 +9%
- $206,223$223,888 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,544 +31%
- $170,344$223,888 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.
- Judith Gap$1,175
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Judith Gap, MT rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Judith Gap, Wheatland County, Montana
Judith Gap is a city of 110 people in Wheatland County. Unemployment in Wheatland County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wheatland County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Judith Gap is a small city in Wheatland County, Montana, where most people know their neighbors and the pace of life is unhurried. Its winters are cold and its summers are warm, with a good deal of snow in the cold months and a moderate amount of rain through the year. The town sits among open country that shapes much of daily life.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, and others find work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, or in government. Across Wheatland County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before. Relatively few people in the county work from home.
Things to do. The Musselshell River is a river a longer drive away, and it suits anyone who enjoys water and open riverbank scenery. Ackley Lake State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers a quieter place to spend an afternoon outdoors. Crystal Lake, another lake a longer drive away, is a further option for a day trip.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Wheatland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wheatland County had 567 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 33° and lows near 12°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 49°. About 28 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Judith Gap weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wheatland County
- The Boeing CompanyGuided missile and space vehicle parts manufacturing606
- Harlowton K-12 SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Wheatland Memorial HealthcareCritical access hospital50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 656 people in all across the county; Judith Gap has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Judith Gap’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 Wheatland County.
Judith Gap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Judith Gap$223,888
- 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 Judith Gap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Judith Gap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.