Ovando, Montana.
Typical home $626,016 (+11.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,333 (+245%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $62,839 +11%
- $563,177$626,016 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $238,684 +62%
- $387,332$626,016 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.
- Ovando$3,286
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Ovando, MT rose 11.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ovando, Powell County, Montana
Ovando, in Powell County, had 83 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $52,679 a year and half less, against $66,923 across Powell County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Powell County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Powell County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ovando is a small community in Powell County, in western Montana. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. The year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, government, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops are the main places residents work. Household incomes here are lower than the county's, and home values are high compared with those incomes. Across Powell County, unemployment is low and has eased compared with a year earlier, while the number of jobs has dipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Dearborn River is a river a longer drive away, suited to those who enjoy moving water. Placid Lake State Park is a protected area also a longer drive away. Seeley Lake, a lake a longer drive away, is another option for a day out.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Powell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Powell County had 2,457 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 42°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ovando Sse weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Powell County
- Sun Mountain LumberStud mills164
- Deer Lodge Medical CenterCritical access hospital115FTE
- Deer Lodge Elem SchoolsSchool district58FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores57
- Ivy HealthcareNursing homes35
- Powell County H S SchoolsSchool district24FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 256 people in all across the county; Ovando 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ovando’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Powell County.
Ovando home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ovando$626,016
- 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 Ovando address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ovando — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.