Scobey, Montana.
Typical home $157,321 (+8.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$410 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,720 +8%
- $145,602$157,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $54 -0%
- $157,375$157,321 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.
- Scobey$826
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Scobey, MT rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scobey, Daniels County, Montana
Scobey is a city of 999 people in Daniels County. Half its households earn more than $52,250 a year and half less, against $55,625 across Daniels County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Daniels County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then media.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scobey is a small city and the seat of Daniels County, in the far northeast corner of Montana. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm by August and the year stays fairly dry.
Work. People in Scobey work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in media and telecoms, in farming, forestry and mining, and in government. Across Daniels County, the largest workplaces are Daniels Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital, and Scobey K-12 Schools. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Day-to-day life here is local, centered on the town itself and the farmland around it.
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- 453households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 11 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Daniels County had 549 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near -1°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 49°. About 23 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scobey Northwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Daniels County
- Daniels Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital51FTE
- Scobey K-12 SchoolsSchool district40FTE
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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scobey’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Daniels County.
Scobey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scobey$157,321
- 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.
- Scobey6
Zip codes with a Scobey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scobey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.