Molt, Montana.
Typical home $570,267 (+0.5% in a year). Billings, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,752 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,598 +0%
- $567,669$570,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,783 +22%
- $466,484$570,267 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.
- Molt$2,993
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Molt, MT rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Molt, Stillwater County, Montana
The Census does not count Molt on its own, so the figures here are Stillwater County's. Half the county's households earn more than $84,732 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Stillwater County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 13.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stillwater 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Molt is a small community in Stillwater County, in the south-central part of Montana. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many households are settled in longer-term homes. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and rainfall is fairly light for the year.
Work. Across Stillwater County, residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across the county, fewer people are out of work than a year ago, though the number of jobs has dropped in the most recent year. A good share of adults hold a degree, and many people work from home.
Things to do. Grass Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a short drive away, suited to a quiet morning outdoors. The Stillwater River and the Western Heritage Center, a museum, are both a longer drive off, and make a fuller day trip.
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- 3,810households
- 46.7median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Stillwater County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stillwater County had 2,931 jobs in 2025, 13.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 53°. About 54 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rapelje weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stillwater County
- Stillwater Mining Company Base Metals SmelterPlatinum refining, primary71
- Columbus Elem SchoolsSchool district58FTE
- Stillwater Billings ClinicCritical access hospital42FTE
- Park City Elem SchoolsSchool district36FTE
- Columbus H S SchoolsSchool district35FTE
- Stillwater Mining Company Analytical LaboratoryMetallurgical testing laboratories or services28
- Absarokee Elem SchoolsSchool district25FTE
- Stillwater Mining Company Base Metals RefineryPlatinum refining, primary24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 223 people in all. 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
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 Stillwater 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 Stillwater County and the Billings, MT metro.
Molt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Molt$570,267
- 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.
- Molt7
Zip codes with a Molt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Molt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.