Polebridge, Montana.
Typical home $577,489 (-0.2% in a year). Kalispell, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,867 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $928 -0%
- $578,417$577,489 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,145 +15%
- $502,344$577,489 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.
- Polebridge$3,031
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Polebridge, MT fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Polebridge, Flathead County, Montana
Polebridge, in Flathead County, had 14 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Flathead County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Flathead County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Polebridge is a small community in Flathead County, in northwestern Montana, where only a few people live. Its homes sit in a quiet, wooded setting, and most of the county's homes are lived in by their owners. Winters here are cold and summers are warm, with the seasons marked clearly through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Those jobs are found across the county, and many people in the area make their living close to home. Work and daily life in Polebridge tend to follow the rhythm of the seasons.
Things to do. Bowman Lake and Quartz Lake are both a short drive away, and each offers a quiet lake setting. Glacier National Park, one of the best known parks in the country, is a longer drive away. Lake McDonald, also a longer drive away, lies within the wider park area.
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What people in Flathead County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Flathead County had 51,035 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 38°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Polebridge weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Flathead County
- Logan Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,077FTE
- Applied MaterialsSemiconductor machine manufacturing403
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- Kalispell Elem SchoolsSchool district384FTE
- Logan Health WhitefishCritical access hospital350FTE
- Flathead H S SchoolsSchool district322FTE
- NwestcoConstruction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services313
- Xanterra Parks and Resorts Inc Glacier National ParkHotels except casino hotels and motels300
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,414 people in all across the county; Polebridge 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Polebridge’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 Flathead County and the Kalispell, MT metro.
Polebridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Polebridge$577,489
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Polebridge5
Zip codes with a Polebridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Polebridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.