States · Montana · Powell County

Goldcreek, Montana.

Typical home $326,860 (+0.9% in a year).

What it costs per month · Goldcreek $1,716/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,028 (+150%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $2,780 +1%
$324,080$326,860 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $60,346 +23%
$266,514$326,860 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 Goldcreek $1,716 Montana $2,453 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Goldcreek$1,716
  • 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 Goldcreek, MT rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Goldcreek, Powell County, Montana

Goldcreek, in Powell County, had 9 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Powell County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Powell County work in schools and health care, then government.

People 9 in the 2020 census; median age 63.5
Household income Too few homes in Goldcreek for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.0% Powell County, August 2026; 3.1% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Goldcreek for the Census survey to measure.

Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goldcreek is a small community in Powell County, Montana, where very few people live and most residents are older. Winters are cold and bring a good deal of snow, while summers are warm and rain is light across the year.

Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Jobs and unemployment across Powell County have changed only slightly in recent years.

Things to do. The Clark Fork is a river a longer drive away, and the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. Discovery Ski Area, a ski area, is likewise a longer drive away.

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What people in Powell County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care20%
  • Government18%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment14%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Farming, forestry and mining10%
  • Building trades8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Powell County had 2,457 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 32° and 13°; warmest in July, 86° and 44° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 86° 44° A S O N D 32° 13°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 32° and 13°; warmest in July, 86° and 44° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 86° 44° A S O N D 32° 13°

Coldest in December, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 44°. About 30 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Drummond Aviation weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Powell County

  1. Sun Mountain LumberStud mills164
  2. Deer Lodge Medical CenterCritical access hospital115FTE
  3. Deer Lodge Elem SchoolsSchool district58FTE
  4. SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores57
  5. Ivy HealthcareNursing homes35
  6. Powell County H S SchoolsSchool district24FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 256 people in all across the county; Goldcreek 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. LandslidesRelatively high
  2. WildfireRelatively high
  3. Winter weatherRelatively high
  4. Cold wavesRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively moderate
  6. Inland floodingRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Goldcreek’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Powell County.

Goldcreek 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 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Goldcreek $326,860 Montana $467,275 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2020 2022 2024 2026
  • Goldcreek$326,860
  • 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.

JFMAMJJASOND
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
falling flat warming hot overheating runaway

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

5 6 6 2026 Goldcreek 6
5 6 6 2026
  • Goldcreek6

Zip codes with a Goldcreek address

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

Zip codes in Goldcreek