States · Montana · Valley County

Frazer, Montana.

Typical home $329,507 (+8.3% in a year).

What it costs per month · Frazer $1,730/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,144 (+195%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $25,341 +8%
$304,166$329,507 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $84,176 +34%
$245,331$329,507 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Frazer $1,730 Montana $2,453 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Frazer$1,730
  • Montana$2,453
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.

Typical home values in Frazer, MT rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Frazer, Valley County, Montana

Frazer, in Valley County, had 354 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Valley County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Valley County work in schools and health care, then farming.

People 354 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Frazer for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 2.5% Valley County, August 2026; 2.9% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Frazer for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Frazer is a very small community in Valley County, in northeastern Montana, where neighbors are likely to know one another by sight. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and incomes across Valley County are somewhat below the national level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with August the warmest.

Work. People who live in Frazer work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Valley County, the largest workplaces include Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, Glasgow K-12 Schools and Valley View Home. Few residents work from home, and the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, though unemployment there has stayed low.

Things to do. Nearby places are a longer drive away. The Milk River is a river worth visiting for time outdoors, and the Fort Peck Theater offers live performances. The Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame is a museum about the region's ranching heritage.

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  • 8%of adults have a degree
  • 6%work from home

What people in Valley County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care24%
  • Farming, forestry and mining15%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Government7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Valley County had 2,826 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 26° and 3°; warmest in August, 88° and 56° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 26° 3° F M A M J J A 88° 56° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 26° and 3°; warmest in August, 88° and 56° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 26° 3° F M A M J J A 88° 56° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 3°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 56°.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nashua #2 weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Valley County

  1. Frances Mahon Deaconess HospitalCritical access hospital203FTE
  2. Glasgow K-12 SchoolsSchool district119FTE
  3. Valley View HomeNursing homes77
  4. AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores76
  5. Prairie Ridge VillageNursing homes55
  6. Nashua K-12 SchoolsSchool district30FTE
  7. NEMT Stat Air CoopAir ambulance services23
  8. Border Plains Equipment - GlasgowAgricultural implements merchant wholesalers22

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 525 people in all across the county; Frazer has none of its own. 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

  1. Cold wavesVery high
  2. HailVery high
  3. Winter weatherVery high
  4. Inland floodingRelatively high
  5. Strong windRelatively high
  6. WildfireRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Frazer’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 Valley County.

Frazer home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Frazer $329,507 Montana $467,275 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Frazer$329,507
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Frazer address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Frazer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Frazer