Sidney, Montana.
Typical home $279,921 (+5.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$601 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,624 +6%
- $265,298$279,921 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $38,627 -12%
- $318,548$279,921 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.
- Sidney$1,469
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Sidney, MT rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sidney, Richland County, Montana
Sidney is a city of 6,346 people in Richland County. Half its households earn more than $62,538 a year and half less, against $73,084 across Richland County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sidney is a city in Richland County in far eastern Montana, close to where the Yellowstone River meets the Missouri. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are lower than the county's as a whole. Winters are colder than most of the country's, with a good deal of snow, while summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Building trades and farming, forestry and mining also employ people here. Unemployment in the county has stayed about the same recently, though its job count has been slipping lately, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is a protected area a longer drive away, and it is one of the best known places in the region. The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center is a museum, also a longer drive away, that tells the story of the confluence itself. The Yellowstone River itself, a river a longer drive away, is a good place to see the waterway that shapes the local landscape.
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- 2,505households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 4,996 jobs in 2025, 4.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 57°. About 30 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sidney weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sidney
- Sidney Health CenterCritical access hospital387FTE
- Sidney Elem SchoolsSchool district129FTE
- Sidney H S SchoolsSchool district64FTE
- Corland ConstructionCurb and gutter construction, residential and commercial driveway and parking area, concrete52
- Kraken OperatingOil and gas field development for own account40
- Agricultural Research ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture36
- Gem City MotorsLight utility truck dealers, new only or new and used31
- Sidney Millwork CoMillwork, custom architectural, manufacturing29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 179 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of SidneyRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sidney’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 Richland County.
Sidney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sidney$279,921
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Sidney listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Sidney16.40%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sidney27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sidney8
Zip codes with a Sidney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sidney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.