Worden, Montana.
Typical home $403,890 (+2.4% in a year). Billings, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,073 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,648 +2%
- $394,242$403,890 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,507 +12%
- $359,383$403,890 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.
- Worden$2,120
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Worden, MT rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Worden, Yellowstone County, Montana
Worden, in Yellowstone County, had 582 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Yellowstone County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yellowstone County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Worden is a very small community, among the smallest of towns. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm by July. Precipitation is on the light side. Across Yellowstone County, household incomes are well above what many places see, and very few people in Worden live below the poverty line. Typical home values here are on the higher side.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in professional and business services. Across Yellowstone County, some of the largest workplaces are Billings Clinic, St Vincent Healthcare and Billings Elem Schools. The typical commute is a fairly short drive each way, shorter than an hour. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, while the number of jobs has been close to flat.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and Pompeys Pillar National Monument are protected areas tied to the history of the region. A longer drive brings you to the Yellowstone Art Museum, a museum with a local focus on art, and to Lake Elmo State Park, a protected area suited to time outdoors. ZooMontana is also within a longer drive.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
What people in Yellowstone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yellowstone County had 87,416 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 55°. About 34 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntley Experiment Station weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yellowstone County
- Billings ClinicGeneral hospital3,738FTE
- Billings Clinic Downtown CampusMds' offices1,342
- Billings Elem SchoolsSchool district1,274FTE
- St Vincent HealthcareGeneral hospital1,234FTE
- Billings H S SchoolsSchool district568FTE
- St Johns Lutheran MinistriesNursing homes534
- Montana State University BillingsUniversity or college507
- CHSPetroleum refineries462
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 178 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,378 people in all across the county; Worden has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Worden’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 Yellowstone County and the Billings, MT metro.
Worden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Worden$403,890
- 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 Worden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Worden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.