Kila, Montana.
Typical home $718,840 (+2.2% in a year). Kalispell, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,389 (+173%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,471 +2%
- $703,369$718,840 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,875 +19%
- $603,966$718,840 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.
- Kila$3,773
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Kila, MT rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kila, Flathead County, Montana
Kila, in Flathead County, had 424 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Flathead County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Flathead County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kila is a small community in Flathead County, Montana, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for the country, and household incomes in the county are somewhat below that level. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs staying just below freezing, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Flathead County, the largest workplaces include Logan Health Medical Center, Applied Materials and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Some residents work from home, though most travel to a job.
Things to do. Lone Pine State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Flathead Lake, one of the best known lakes in the region, and to Whitefish Mountain Resort, a ski area. Snow falls plentifully through the winter, which suits skiing and other cold-season outdoor pastimes.
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What people in Flathead County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Flathead County had 51,035 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 48°. About 54 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kalispell Glacier Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Flathead County
- Logan Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,077FTE
- Applied MaterialsSemiconductor machine manufacturing403
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- Kalispell Elem SchoolsSchool district384FTE
- Logan Health WhitefishCritical access hospital350FTE
- Flathead H S SchoolsSchool district322FTE
- NwestcoConstruction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services313
- Xanterra Parks and Resorts Inc Glacier National ParkHotels except casino hotels and motels300
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,414 people in all across the county; Kila has one 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kila’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 Flathead County and the Kalispell, MT metro.
Kila home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kila$718,840
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kila 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.
- Kila34.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kila22
Zip codes with a Kila address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kila — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.