Rollins, Montana.
Typical home $1,183,721 (-0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,302 (+225%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,955 -0%
- $1,185,676$1,183,721 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $351,284 +42%
- $832,437$1,183,721 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.
- Rollins$6,213
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Rollins, MT fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rollins, Lake County, Montana
Rollins, in Lake County, had 192 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lake County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rollins is a very small community, with a population that skews older than most of the country, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Homes here are valued far above what the county's incomes would suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot. Precipitation falls as rain and melted snow, and the year is on the dry side.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are Rocky Mountain Twist, a metalworking manufacturer, St. Luke Community Hospital, and Salish Kootenai College. Jobs in the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Flathead Lake, a large lake, is a short drive away, as is Blacktail Mountain Ski Area for winter days on the slopes. Yellow Bay State Park, a protected area on the lake's shore, is also a short drive. For a longer outing, Flathead National Forest offers wild country a longer drive away.
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What people in Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 9,694 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 55°. About 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bigfork South weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- Rocky Mountain TwistBits, drill, metalworking, manufacturing263
- St Luke Community HospitalCritical access hospital257FTE
- Salish Kootenai CollegeUniversity or college249
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters211
- Providence St Joseph Medical CTRCritical access hospital178FTE
- Ronan Elem SchoolsSchool district160FTE
- Polson Elem SchoolsSchool district150FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,045 people in all across the county; Rollins has none 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rollins’ 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 Lake County.
Rollins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rollins$1,183,721
- 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.
- Rollins7
Zip codes with a Rollins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rollins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.