Toston, Montana.
Typical home $436,713 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,576 (+220%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,921 +4%
- $419,791$436,713 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $146,617 +51%
- $290,096$436,713 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.
- Toston$2,292
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Toston, MT rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Toston, Broadwater County, Montana
Toston, in Broadwater County, had 100 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $63,206 a year and half less, against $70,374 across Broadwater County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Broadwater County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Broadwater County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Toston is a small community in Broadwater County, in southwestern Montana, where residents tend to know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, with lows that drop well below freezing, and summers are warm. Rain and melted snow arrive across the year, and the town's residents have a median household income below the county's.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in government. In Broadwater County, unemployment is low and was lower this past August than a year earlier. The county also added jobs last year compared with the year before.
Things to do. The Missouri River is a longer drive away and is one of the best known rivers in the region, offering a place to fish and to see wide open river country. Missouri Headwaters State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area where the Missouri River begins. Frazier Lake, another longer drive away, is a lake for a day outdoors.
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- 0%below the poverty line
What people in Broadwater County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Broadwater County had 1,568 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 52°. About 24 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Townsend 3SE weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Broadwater County
- Townsend K-12 SchoolsSchool district92FTE
- Billings Clinic BroadwaterCritical access hospital32FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture22
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Toston’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 Broadwater County.
Toston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Toston$436,713
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Toston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Toston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.