Lakeside, Montana.
Typical home $874,290 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $2,510 . Kalispell, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,885 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,005 +4%
- $843,286$874,290 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $173,072 +25%
- $701,219$874,290 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.
- Lakeside$4,589
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Lakeside, MT rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lakeside, Flathead County, Montana
Lakeside, in Flathead County, had 2,705 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lakeside is a small community on the west shore of Flathead Lake in northwest Montana. Homes here are expensive, and typical values run well above what most people in the county would expect to pay. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing, while summers are warm, with August the warmest month. Precipitation is moderate across the year, and a good share of it arrives as snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Flathead County, some of the largest workplaces are Logan Health Medical Center, Applied Materials and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Flathead Lake is a short drive away, and Wayfarers State Park, a protected area on the lake's shore, is close as well. Blacktail Mountain Ski Area sits in or beside town, which suits the long snowy winters. The Swan River, another short drive off, offers a quieter stretch of water.
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- 1,034households
- 11%below the poverty line
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 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 48°. About 51 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Creston weather station, 13 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; Lakeside 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lakeside’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.
Lakeside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lakeside$874,290
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lakeside 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.
- Lakeside21.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lakeside52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lakeside8
Zip codes with a Lakeside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lakeside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.