Glasgow, Montana.
Typical home $166,972 (+9.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$476 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,881 +10%
- $152,091$166,972 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,003 +17%
- $142,969$166,972 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.
- Glasgow$876
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Glasgow, MT rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glasgow, Valley County, Montana
Glasgow is a city of 3,202 people in Valley County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glasgow is a small city in Valley County, in the northeastern part of Montana. Residents are older than in most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and the share living below the poverty line is modest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops and transport also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Glasgow are Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, Glasgow K-12 Schools and Valley View Home. Getting to work takes very little time, and unemployment across Valley County has stayed low, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. The Milk River, Fort Peck Lake and the Fort Peck Theater are the best known places nearby, each a longer drive away. The river and the reservoir offer water and open country, and the theatre is a place for live performance. Winters are colder than in most of the country, and summers turn warm.
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- 1,387households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 8 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
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
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 59°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glasgow #2 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glasgow
- Frances Mahon Deaconess HospitalCritical access hospital203FTE
- Glasgow K-12 SchoolsSchool district119FTE
- Valley View HomeNursing homes77
- Prairie Ridge VillageNursing homes55
- NEMT Stat Air CoopAir ambulance services23
- Border Plains Equipment - GlasgowAgricultural implements merchant wholesalers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 449 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glasgow’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.
Glasgow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glasgow$166,972
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Glasgow 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.
- Glasgow19.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glasgow28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glasgow6
Zip codes with a Glasgow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glasgow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.