West Yellowstone, Montana.
Typical home $659,593 (+6.3% in a year). Bozeman, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,947 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,870 +6%
- $620,722$659,593 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,347 +16%
- $566,246$659,593 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.
- West Yellowstone$3,462
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in West Yellowstone, MT rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Yellowstone, Gallatin County, Montana
West Yellowstone is a town of 1,272 people in Gallatin County. Unemployment in Gallatin County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gallatin County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Yellowstone is a small town in Gallatin County, Montana, and it is home to far fewer people than most places on this site. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for the country, and household incomes in the county run higher than in much of the nation. Winters are long and cold, with December the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm days and cool nights.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Delaware North Companies, the Forest Service and West Yellowstone K Schools. Very few people work from home, and unemployment across Gallatin County is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. The Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center, a zoo, is in or beside town. A longer drive away are Gibbon Falls, a waterfall, and Quake Lake, a lake. The Gallatin River is also a longer drive away for anyone who wants time beside a river.
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- 1%work from home
What people in Gallatin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gallatin County had 74,277 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 26° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 39°. About 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Yellowstone Gateway weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in West Yellowstone
- Delaware North CompaniesHotels except casino hotels and motels63
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture56
- Delaware North CompaniesHotels except casino hotels and motels41
- West Yellowstone K-12 SchoolsSchool district32FTE
- Wyndham Vacation OwnershipHotels and motels31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 135 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Yellowstone’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 Gallatin County and the Bozeman, MT metro.
West Yellowstone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Yellowstone$659,593
- 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.
- West Yellowstone16
Zip codes with a West Yellowstone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Yellowstone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.