Richey, Montana.
Typical home $158,256 (+11.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$526 (+172%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,038 +11%
- $142,217$158,256 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,095 +36%
- $116,161$158,256 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.
- Richey$831
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Richey, MT rose 11.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richey, Dawson County, Montana
Richey is a town of 164 people in Dawson County. Unemployment in Dawson County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dawson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richey is a very small town in eastern Montana, in Dawson County, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a farming area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. The year is fairly dry, with modest rain and melted snow overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Others work in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in farming, forestry and mining. Across Dawson County, some of the largest workplaces are Glendive Medical Center, Glendive Elem Schools and Albertsons. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Redwater River is a river a longer drive away, suited to a day by the water. Lake Circle, also a longer drive away, is a lake that makes a quiet destination for a drive and some time on the shore.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in Dawson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dawson County had 3,338 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 56°. About 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vida Northeast weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dawson County
- Glendive Medical CenterCritical access hospital239FTE
- Glendive Elem SchoolsSchool district121FTE
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores83
- Dawson Community CollegeTwo-year college75
- Dawson H S SchoolsSchool district45FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services40
- SRS CrisafulliPumps, industrial and commercial-type, general purpose, manufacturing24
- MDU Resources GroupDistribution of electric power23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 235 people in all across the county; Richey has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Richey’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 Dawson County.
Richey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richey$158,256
- 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 Richey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.