McLeod, Montana.
Typical home $693,529 (+5.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,177 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,891 +5%
- $657,637$693,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $105,020 +18%
- $588,509$693,529 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.
- McLeod$3,640
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in McLeod, MT rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McLeod, Sweet Grass County, Montana
The Census does not count McLeod on its own, so the figures here are Sweet Grass County's. Half the county's households earn more than $77,000 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Sweet Grass County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 9.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sweet Grass 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McLeod is a small community in Sweet Grass County, in south-central Montana. Across the county, residents tend to be older than the nation as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are the warm season, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Across Sweet Grass County, unemployment is low, though the number of jobs fell from the year before. Residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Most people travel to work rather than working from home, and the typical commute is a short drive.
Things to do. Gallatin National Forest, a protected area, and the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, also a protected area, are both a longer drive away. Greycliff Prairie Dog Town State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive off as well, and the Shields River, a river, completes the list of nearby choices.
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- 1,552households
- 47.0median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Sweet Grass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sweet Grass County had 1,478 jobs in 2025, 9.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 47°. About 70 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nye #2 weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sweet Grass County
- Pioneer Medical CenterCritical access hospital58FTE
- Big Timber Elem SchoolsSchool district42FTE
- Sweet Grass County H S SchoolsSchool district34FTE
Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sweet Grass County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Sweet Grass County.
McLeod home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McLeod$693,529
- 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.
- McLeod6
Zip codes with a McLeod address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McLeod — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.