Sula, Montana.
Typical home $408,048 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,263 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $583 +0%
- $407,465$408,048 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,754 +10%
- $372,294$408,048 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.
- Sula$2,142
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Sula, MT rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sula, Ravalli County, Montana
Sula, in Ravalli County, had 41 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ravalli County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ravalli County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sula is a very small community in Ravalli County, in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. Its residents know one another well, and the town has the quiet feel that comes with a place this size. Many of the homes sit within reach of wide open country and mountain views.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. In Ravalli County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and total jobs have eased slightly over the same period. Winters here are colder than most of the country, while summers are warm, and rain and melted snow arrive across the year.
Things to do. The Bitterroot River, a river a longer drive away, is one of the main waterways nearby. The Bitterroot National Forest, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers wide stretches of woodland to explore. For winter visitors, Lost Trail Powder Mountain, a ski area a longer drive away, is within reach.
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What people in Ravalli County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ravalli County had 13,744 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 33° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 43°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sula Ene weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ravalli County
- Marcus Daly Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital535FTE
- Corixa Corporation (dBa GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals North America)Penicillin, uncompounded, manufacturing303
- Stock Farm ClubGolf and country clubs267
- Hamilton K-12 SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- TC RanchResort hotels without casinos205
- Corvallis K-12 SchoolsSchool district173FTE
- National Institutes of HealthFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services170
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,496 people in all across the county; Sula 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 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
- WildfireVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sula’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Ravalli County.
Sula home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sula$408,048
- 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.
- Sula10
Zip codes with a Sula address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sula — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.