Ennis, Montana.
Typical home $648,345 (+2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,028 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,079 +3%
- $632,266$648,345 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $105,597 +19%
- $542,748$648,345 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.
- Ennis$3,403
- 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 Ennis, MT rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ennis, Madison County, Montana
Ennis is a town of 917 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $69,650 a year and half less, against $75,250 across Madison County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ennis is a small town in Madison County, Montana, home to a small community where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run a little below the county's as a whole, and homes here are priced well above what the local incomes would suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and the year brings little rain and melted snow overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Ennis are Madison Valley Medical Center, Ennis K-12 Schools and the Forest Service. Few people work from home, and across the county unemployment has risen over the past year while the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Twin Lakes is a lake a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby places to town. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Big Sky Resort, a ski area, and to the Lee Metcalf Wilderness, a protected area of wild country.
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- 373households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 4%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 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 46°. About 45 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ennis weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ennis
- Madison Valley Medical CenterCritical access hospital84FTE
- Ennis K-12 SchoolsSchool district65FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture33
Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ennis’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Madison County.
Ennis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ennis$648,345
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Ennis listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Ennis13.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ennis56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ennis11
Zip codes with a Ennis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ennis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.