Brady, Montana.
Typical home $240,455 (+6.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$807 (+178%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,635 +6%
- $225,820$240,455 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,247 +46%
- $165,207$240,455 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.
- Brady$1,262
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Brady, MT rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brady, Pondera County, Montana
Brady, in Pondera County, had 116 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pondera County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pondera County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brady is a very small community in Pondera County, in north-central Montana. Its winters are colder than most of the country's, and the summers are warm. The snowfall is heavy for the region, while the rain and melted snow over the year are light, so the land tends to be dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining. Shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employ people nearby. Across Pondera County, unemployment has barely moved in recent months, and the number of jobs has dipped a little over the past year.
Things to do. Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area is a park, a longer drive away, that protects wildlife habitat. Lake Chouteau is a lake, also a longer drive away, and The Montana Dinosaur Center is a museum, a longer drive away, for visitors interested in fossils.
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What people in Pondera County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pondera County had 1,523 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 52°. About 47 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Conrad weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pondera County
- Logan Health ConradCritical access hospital73FTE
- Conrad Elem SchoolsSchool district41FTE
- Heart Butte K-12 SchoolsSchool district37FTE
- Valier Elem SchoolsSchool district23FTE
Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brady’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 Pondera County.
Brady home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brady$240,455
- 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 Brady address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brady — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.