Cameron, Montana.
Typical home $880,401 (+2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,824 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,078 +3%
- $857,324$880,401 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $150,285 +21%
- $730,116$880,401 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.
- Cameron$4,621
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Cameron, MT rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cameron, Madison County, Montana
The Census does not count Cameron on its own, so the figures here are Madison County's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,250 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cameron is a community in Madison County, in the mountains of southwestern Montana. Winters are cold with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, residents are older on average than most of the country, and the poverty rate is lower than the national rate.
Work. Across Madison County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining, while restaurants, hotels and entertainment and the building trades also employ many. Unemployment rose over the past year, and the county had slightly fewer jobs in its most recent year than before.
Things to do. Quake Lake and Twin Lakes are both lakes, and Hebgen Lake is a reservoir, each a longer drive away. The Lee Metcalf Wilderness is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Big Sky Resort is a ski area, likewise a longer drive away.
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- 3,740households
- 52.2median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 2,981 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 23° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 45°. About 177 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hebgen Dam weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Big Sky ResortAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations1,100
- Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical CenterHospitals, general medical and surgical94
- Madison Valley Medical CenterCritical access hospital84FTE
- Big SKY Medical CenterCritical access hospital72FTE
- Williams Plumbing and Heating- Big SkyBathroom plumbing fixture and sanitary ware installation70
- Ennis K-12 SchoolsSchool district65FTE
- Ruby Valley HospitalCritical access hospital52FTE
- HighlineResidential construction, single-family, general contractors51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,569 people in all. 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Madison County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Madison County.
Cameron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cameron$880,401
- 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.
- Cameron14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cameron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cameron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.