Savage, Montana.
Typical home $275,028 (+8.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$857 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,539 +8%
- $254,489$275,028 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,257 +26%
- $217,771$275,028 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.
- Savage$1,444
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Savage, MT rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Savage, Richland County, Montana
Savage, in Richland County, had 303 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Richland County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Savage is a very small community in Richland County, Montana, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot in July. Precipitation is on the light side across the year, with most of it arriving as snow in the colder months.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in the building trades. Very few work from home. Across Richland County, some of the largest workplaces are Sidney Health Center, a critical access hospital, the Sidney elementary and high school districts, and Corland Construction.
Things to do. For a day out, there are museums about dinosaurs and fossils among the nearby places: the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum and the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum. Both are a longer drive away, so they suit a planned trip more than a quick outing.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Richland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 4,996 jobs in 2025, 4.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 57°. About 30 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Savage weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland County
- Sidney Health CenterCritical access hospital387FTE
- Sidney Elem SchoolsSchool district129FTE
- Sidney H S SchoolsSchool district64FTE
- Corland ConstructionCurb and gutter construction, residential and commercial driveway and parking area, concrete52
- Kraken OperatingOil and gas field development for own account40
- Agricultural Research ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture36
- Fairview Elem SchoolsSchool district36FTE
- Gem City MotorsLight utility truck dealers, new only or new and used31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 255 people in all across the county; Savage has one 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Savage’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 Richland County.
Savage home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Savage$275,028
- 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 Savage address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Savage — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.