McAllister, Montana.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,452 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
Living in McAllister, Madison County, Montana
McAllister, in Madison County, had 278 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Madison County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McAllister is a very small community in Madison County, Montana, where residents know one another and the surrounding valley sets the pace of life. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm in July without turning extreme. Precipitation is light across the year, so the snow matters more than the rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing many. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Big Sky Resort, Madison Valley Medical Center and Ennis K-12 Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Winter brings skiing, and Big Sky Resort and Moonlight Basin are both ski areas a longer drive away. For time outdoors in other seasons, Lee Metcalf Wilderness is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lewis and Clark Caverns is a tourist attraction, also a longer drive away. Twin Lakes is a lake within the same longer drive.
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What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 2,981 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 57°. About 52 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norris Madison Pwr House weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Big Sky ResortAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations1,100
- Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical CenterHospitals, general medical and surgical94
- Madison Valley Medical CenterCritical access hospital84FTE
- Big SKY Medical CenterCritical access hospital72FTE
- Williams Plumbing and Heating- Big SkyBathroom plumbing fixture and sanitary ware installation70
- Ennis K-12 SchoolsSchool district65FTE
- Ruby Valley HospitalCritical access hospital52FTE
- HighlineResidential construction, single-family, general contractors51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,569 people in all across the county; McAllister 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McAllister’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 Madison County.
McAllister home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a McAllister address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McAllister — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.