Clinton, Montana.
Typical home $541,182 (+3.1% in a year). Missoula, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,743 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,074 +3%
- $525,108$541,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,798 +23%
- $439,384$541,182 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.
- Clinton$2,841
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Clinton, MT rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, Granite County, Montana
Clinton, in Granite County, had 1,018 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Granite County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Granite County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a small community in Granite County, Montana, with a population that has stayed modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm in July. Precipitation is on the light side, falling mostly as snow in the colder months. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would suggest, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Granite County, the largest workplaces are the Forest Service, Philipsburg K-12 Schools and Granite County Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. A typical commute is a moderate one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Rock Creek, a river, and Beavertail Hill State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away and make easy outings for a day by the water or among the trees. For a longer trip, Lake Missoula is a lake a longer drive away, and the Missoula Art Museum is a museum in the same longer-drive range, handy for a day when the weather turns.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Granite County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Granite County had 931 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 41°. About 52 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Potomac weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Granite County
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture42
- Philipsburg K-12 SchoolsSchool district36FTE
- Granite County Medical CenterCritical access hospital30FTE
Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinton’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 Granite County and the Missoula, MT metro.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$541,182
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Clinton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Clinton22.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clinton21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.