Grass Range, Montana.
Typical home $312,510 (+9.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,147 (+232%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,248 +10%
- $284,262$312,510 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $128,056 +69%
- $184,454$312,510 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.
- Grass Range$1,640
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Grass Range, MT rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grass Range, Fergus County, Montana
Grass Range is a town of 110 people in Fergus County. Unemployment in Fergus County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fergus County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grass Range is a small town in Fergus County, in central Montana, where most people know one another and daily life moves at an unhurried pace. Homes here tend to cost less than across much of the country, and incomes in the county run below the national level. The town has winters that are colder than most of the country, with snow on the ground for much of the season, while summers are warm and the rainfall is fairly light.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining, which have long been part of life across the county. Building trades and local shops also employ people here. Few households work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, so local jobs are mostly hands-on and tied to the land and the community.
Things to do. Bear Gulch Limestone is a protected area and the best known of the nearby places, found a longer drive away. War Horse National Wildlife Refuge is also a protected area, likewise a longer drive off, and is a good choice for those who enjoy birdwatching and open country.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Fergus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fergus County had 4,697 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 53°. About 50 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grass Range weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fergus County
- Central Montana Medical CenterCritical access hospital222FTE
- Lewistown Elem SchoolsSchool district139FTE
- Century CompaniesRoad construction123
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores104
- Spika Design and ManufacturingFabricated structural metal manufacturing72
- Fergus H S SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior48
- Kiewit Infrastructure CoBridge construction36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 739 people in all across the county; Grass Range has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grass Range’s 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 Fergus County.
Grass Range home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grass Range$312,510
- 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.
Zip codes with a Grass Range address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grass Range — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.