Montague, California.
Typical home $256,923 (-1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$638 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,570 -1%
- $260,494$256,923 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,395 -2%
- $262,319$256,923 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.
- Montague$1,349
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Montague, CA fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Montague, Siskiyou County, California
Montague is a city of 1,226 people in Siskiyou County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Siskiyou County was 7.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Montague is a small city in Siskiyou County, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Precipitation is light across the year, so the climate is on the dry side.
Work. People in Montague work mainly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and government. Few work from home. Across Siskiyou County, the largest workplaces include Fairchild Medical Center, CAL Fire and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Shasta River is a short drive away and offers time by the water. A longer drive brings the Pacific Crest Trail, a long-distance hiking route, and Mount Shasta City Park, a garden in the town of Mount Shasta. Butte Valley National Grassland, a protected area of open country, is also a longer drive away.
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- 558households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Siskiyou County had 13,862 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 54°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montague Siskiyou County Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Siskiyou County
- Fairchild Medical CenterCritical access hospital341FTE
- CAL FireCal fire265
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters224
- Plant Sciences Genetics, MacdoelAgriculture production or harvesting crews210
- College of the SiskiyousTwo-year college208
- Pfeiffer VacuumFlanges and flange unions, pipe, metal, manufacturing201
- Mercy Medical Center Mt. ShastaCritical access hospital194FTE
- Yreka Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district142FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,934 people in all across the county; Montague has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Montague’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 Siskiyou County.
Montague home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Montague$256,923
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Montague 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.
- Montague21.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Montague34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Montague5
Zip codes with a Montague address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Montague — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.