Lewistown, Montana.
Typical home $284,883 (+5.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$961 (+180%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,555 +5%
- $270,328$284,883 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,718 +45%
- $196,165$284,883 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.
- Lewistown$1,495
- 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 Lewistown, MT rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana
Lewistown is a city of 5,952 people in Fergus County. Half its households earn more than $48,750 a year and half less, against $63,706 across Fergus County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Fergus County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lewistown is a small city in Fergus County, with a population that skews older than much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than a typical American community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the town too, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Lewistown include Central Montana Medical Center, a critical access hospital, along with the Lewistown elementary schools and Century Companies, a road construction firm. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Fergus County is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Big Spring Creek is the best known of the nearby places, a river a longer drive away. Ackley Lake State Park, a protected area, and Crystal Lake, a lake, are also a longer drive from town. Winters here are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with modest rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 2,880households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fergus County had 4,697 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 51°. About 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewistown Municipal Airport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewistown
- Central Montana Medical CenterCritical access hospital222FTE
- Lewistown Elem SchoolsSchool district139FTE
- Century CompaniesRoad construction123
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores104
- Fergus H S SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior48
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior27
- Fergus County Council on AgingCommunity meals, social services27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 574 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lewistown’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 Fergus County.
Lewistown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lewistown$284,883
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Lewistown listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Lewistown13.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lewistown83
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lewistown16
Zip codes with a Lewistown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lewistown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.