Augusta, Montana.
Typical home $405,860 (+9.9% in a year). Helena, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,432 (+205%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $36,484 +10%
- $369,376$405,860 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $135,924 +50%
- $269,935$405,860 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.
- Augusta$2,130
- 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 Augusta, MT rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Augusta, Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Augusta, in Lewis and Clark County, had 316 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lewis and Clark County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis and Clark County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Augusta is a very small community, and one of the older ones, with a typical resident well past retirement age. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while summers are warm and the year is fairly dry, with rain and melted snow adding up to little. Homes here are valued well above what many small towns see.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Lewis and Clark County, the largest workplaces include St. Peters Hospital, the Montana Department of Justice and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Water is the main draw around Augusta. Willow Creek Reservoir and Nilan Reservoir are both a short drive away, and the Sun River is a longer drive. For a wider day out, the Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest, a large protected area, lies a longer drive away.
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- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Lewis and Clark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis and Clark County had 39,657 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 51°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Augusta weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis and Clark County
- St. Peters HospitalGeneral hospital1,400FTE
- Montana Department of JusticePublic safety bureaus and statistics centers, government870
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs774
- Helena Elem SchoolsSchool district603FTE
- Dick Anderson ConstructionAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building466
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters418
- Montana Legislative BranchLegislative bodies334
- Rocky Mountain ContractorsUtility line, construction285
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,162 people in all across the county; Augusta has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Augusta’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 Lewis and Clark County and the Helena, MT metro.
Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Augusta$405,860
- 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 Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.