Frenchtown, Montana.
Typical home $649,130 (+0.3% in a year). Missoula, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,106 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,810 +0%
- $647,320$649,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $130,976 +25%
- $518,154$649,130 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.
- Frenchtown$3,407
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Frenchtown, MT rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Frenchtown, Missoula County, Montana
Frenchtown, in Missoula County, had 1,958 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $94,500 a year and half less, against $75,598 across Missoula County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Missoula County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Missoula County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Frenchtown is a small community in Missoula County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than is usual across the county. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values are high, so buying here is a sizeable commitment. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with little rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Across Missoula County, the largest workplaces include The University of Montana, St. Patrick Hospital and the Missoula elementary schools. The typical commute is a moderate one, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Frenchtown Pond State Park is in or beside town, and Council Grove State Park and Lake Missoula are each a short drive away. Fort Fizzle, a historic fort, and Lolo National Forest are a longer drive away for a fuller day out.
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- 10%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Missoula County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Missoula County had 65,880 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 54°. About 43 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Missoula Northwest Weather Office weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Missoula County
- The University of MontanaUniversity or college2,422
- St Patrick HospitalGeneral hospital1,256FTE
- Missoula Elem SchoolsSchool district739FTE
- Community Medical CenterGeneral hospital691FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture581
- Missoula H S SchoolsSchool district498FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 100 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,418 people in all across the county; Frenchtown has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of FrenchtownRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Frenchtown’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 Missoula County and the Missoula, MT metro.
Frenchtown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Frenchtown$649,130
- 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.
- Frenchtown15
Zip codes with a Frenchtown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Frenchtown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.