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Housing in Lame Deer

A typical Lame Deer home is worth roughly $111,000

Typical home value
$111K
MT $472K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,610
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Lame Deer?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 4.7 years of income

Less than across Montana (6.5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$96,000
Typical Lame Deer home $111K

That’s $15K short of a typical Lame Deer home.

The typical home, each month
$650
Loan $550Tax $70Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,610 a month here, $960 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Montana typical property tax (0.72% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,610

Renters already here pay a median of $558, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,210
1 bedroom$1,330
2 bedrooms$1,610
3 bedrooms$2,200
4 bedrooms$2,680
44%
of households rent · MT 31%
155
renter households
32%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · MT 45%
82%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$558
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Big Horn County, MT): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

56% of Lame Deer households own their home

Half of Lame Deer’s homes were built before 1979.

Owners and renters
Own 56%Rent 44%

Montana: 69% own.

1979
typical home built · MT 1981

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

Next door

Lame Deer vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Lame Deer. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Lame Deer$111K*—$1,610$23,700
Muddy$164K*—$1,630—

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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