Rudyard, Montana.
Typical home $164,685 (-4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$466 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,484 -5%
- $173,169$164,685 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,058 +14%
- $144,627$164,685 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.
- Rudyard$864
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Rudyard, MT fell 4.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rudyard, Hill County, Montana
Rudyard, in Hill County, had 270 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hill County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hill County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rudyard is a very small community in Hill County, Montana, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and a good deal of snow falls through the season. Summers are warm in July, and the year as a whole is fairly dry, with little rain or melted snow compared with much of the country.
Work. People in Rudyard work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Only a small share work from home. Across Hill County, the largest workplaces include Northern Montana Hospital, Walmart and Montana State University-Northern.
Things to do. Lake Elwell, a reservoir, is the one nearby place on the list, and it is a longer drive away. It is the main option for time on the water, so a visit is best planned as a full outing rather than a quick stop.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Hill County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hill County had 6,783 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 52°. About 35 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Joplin weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hill County
- Northern Montana HospitalCritical access hospital399FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters228
- Havre Elem SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- Montana State University-NorthernUniversity or college199
- Stone Child CollegeUniversity or college87
- Havre H S SchoolsSchool district77FTE
- Box Elder Elem SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Rocky Boy Elem SchoolsSchool district70FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 899 people in all across the county; Rudyard has one 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rudyard’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 Hill County.
Rudyard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rudyard$164,685
- 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 Rudyard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rudyard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.