Black Eagle, Montana.
Typical home $242,913 (+3.1% in a year). Great Falls, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$774 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,251 +3%
- $235,661$242,913 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,982 +43%
- $169,931$242,913 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.
- Black Eagle$1,275
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Black Eagle, MT rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Black Eagle, Cascade County, Montana
Black Eagle, in Cascade County, had 949 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $69,545 a year and half less, against $67,690 across Cascade County. Unemployment in Cascade County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cascade 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Black Eagle is a small community beside the Missouri River in Cascade County, close to Great Falls. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes cost less than many people expect of a place with this much water nearby. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm, while the year brings fairly little rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, or in the building trades. Across Cascade County, some of the largest workplaces are Benefis Hospitals, Great Falls Elem Schools and Great Falls H S Schools. Most people have a short trip to work, and few work from home. Jobs across the county slipped slightly in the latest year, and unemployment there has stayed close to where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Roe River runs in or beside town, and Lake Great Falls is close by as well, which makes the water easy to reach. A short drive away is Great Falls, a waterfall. For indoor afternoons, the C. M. Russell Museum Complex is in or beside town, and the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art is nearby too.
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- 404households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cascade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cascade County had 36,192 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 55°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Great Falls 16st weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cascade County
- Benefis HospitalsGeneral hospital2,511FTE
- Great Falls Elem SchoolsSchool district925FTE
- Great Falls H S SchoolsSchool district393FTE
- Great Falls Clinic Medical CenterGeneral hospital379FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters348
- University of ProvidenceUniversity or college197
- Sletten Construction CompanyCommercial building construction general contractors178
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 64 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,651 people in all across the county; Black Eagle 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Black Eagle’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 Cascade County and the Great Falls, MT metro.
Black Eagle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Black Eagle$242,913
- 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.
- Black Eagle7
Zip codes with a Black Eagle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Black Eagle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.