Walkerville, Montana.
Typical home $164,311 (-0.4% in a year). Butte-Silver Bow, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$553 (+179%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $636 -0%
- $164,946$164,311 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,041 +37%
- $120,270$164,311 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.
- Walkerville$862
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Walkerville, MT fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walkerville, Silver Bow County, Montana
Walkerville is a town of 639 people in Silver Bow County. Unemployment in Silver Bow County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walkerville is a very small town, home to few people, and it sits on the hillside above Butte in a part of Montana long tied to mining. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and daytime highs staying below freezing, while July brings pleasantly warm afternoons. Precipitation is on the light side, falling as rain and melted snow. Homes here are modestly priced, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is higher than in most places.
Work. Residents work mainly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Silver Bow County, the largest workplaces include Montana Technological University, Saint James Healthcare and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Commutes are short, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. Right in or beside town, the World Museum of Mining and the Mai Wah Museum offer a look at the area's mining and immigrant history, and the Berkeley Pit is a large flooded mine that people come to see. A short drive away is Columbia Gardens, the site of a former amusement park. For time on the water, the Clark Fork is a river a longer drive away.
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- 292households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Silver Bow County had 16,486 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 31° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 46°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Butte Bert Mooney Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Silver Bow County
- Montana Technological UniversityUniversity or college479
- Saint James HealthcareGeneral hospital417FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters401
- Butte Elem SchoolsSchool district352FTE
- Integrated Manufacturing Montana Precision Products201
- REC Advanced Silicon MaterialsNonferrous metals smelting and refining, primary194
- Butte H S SchoolsSchool district163FTE
- BSWWorkshops for persons with disabilities124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,762 people in all across the county; Walkerville has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walkerville’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 Silver Bow County and the Butte-Silver Bow, MT metro.
Walkerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walkerville$164,311
- 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 Walkerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walkerville — 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.