Moore, Montana.
Typical home $295,611 (+3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$984 (+174%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,588 +3%
- $287,023$295,611 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,883 +38%
- $214,728$295,611 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.
- Moore$1,552
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Moore, MT rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moore, Fergus County, Montana
Moore is a town of 194 people in Fergus County. Half its households earn more than $49,792 a year and half less, against $63,706 across 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moore is a very small town in central Montana, in Fergus County, where people know one another and the pace is quiet. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a typical home is valued well above what those incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while July is warm. Precipitation is light across the year, falling as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, the building trades, and shops. Very few work from home. Across Fergus County, the largest workplaces include Central Montana Medical Center, the Lewistown elementary school district and Century Companies, a road construction firm. The county's jobs grew slightly last year, and unemployment there is low and a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor places to Moore are a longer drive away. Ackley Lake State Park is a protected area built around a lake, and Crystal Lake is another lake in the area. The Judith River is the best known of the nearby rivers, with Big Spring Creek and Dry Wolf Creek also close enough for a day out.
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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 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 51°. About 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewistown Municipal Airport weather station, 12 miles 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; Moore 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 Moore’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.
Moore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moore$295,611
- 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 Moore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.