Nashua, Montana.
Typical home $123,562 (+18.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$362 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,885 +18%
- $104,678$123,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,801 +18%
- $104,761$123,562 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.
- Nashua$649
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Nashua, MT rose 18.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nashua, Valley County, Montana
Nashua is a town of 301 people in Valley County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Valley County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Valley 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nashua is a very small town, home to a small community of residents, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Homes are modestly priced, and household incomes across Valley County run a little above what many small prairie communities see. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by August.
Work. People in Nashua work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Valley County, some of the biggest employers are Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, Glasgow K-12 Schools and Valley View Home. Commutes are short, and almost nobody works from home.
Things to do. The Milk River, a short drive away, is the nearest water for a walk or a look along its banks. The Fort Peck Theater is also a short drive away, and Fort Peck Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive for a day out.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Valley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Valley County had 2,826 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 3°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nashua #2 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Valley County
- Frances Mahon Deaconess HospitalCritical access hospital203FTE
- Glasgow K-12 SchoolsSchool district119FTE
- Valley View HomeNursing homes77
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores76
- Prairie Ridge VillageNursing homes55
- Nashua K-12 SchoolsSchool district30FTE
- NEMT Stat Air CoopAir ambulance services23
- Border Plains Equipment - GlasgowAgricultural implements merchant wholesalers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 525 people in all across the county; Nashua 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nashua’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Valley County.
Nashua home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nashua$123,562
- 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 Nashua address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nashua — 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.