Silver Star, Montana.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,452 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
Living in Silver Star, Madison County, Montana
Silver Star, in Madison County, had 46 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Madison County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Silver Star is a very small community in Madison County, in southwestern Montana, where neighbors tend to know one another. Its winters are long and bitterly cold, its summers are warm, and its rain and snowfall are modest across the year. Life here is quiet and rural, shaped by the seasons more than by busy streets.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining. Others find jobs in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in the building trades. Work is closely tied to the surrounding countryside and to the services that a small community needs.
Things to do. The Big Hole River is a river a short drive away, and the Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest, a protected area, lies a longer drive off. For a look at the region's past, the World Museum of Mining is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 9%below the poverty line
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 2,981 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 34° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 46°. About 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Twin Bridges weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Big Sky ResortAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations1,100
- Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical CenterHospitals, general medical and surgical94
- Madison Valley Medical CenterCritical access hospital84FTE
- Big SKY Medical CenterCritical access hospital72FTE
- Williams Plumbing and Heating- Big SkyBathroom plumbing fixture and sanitary ware installation70
- Ennis K-12 SchoolsSchool district65FTE
- Ruby Valley HospitalCritical access hospital52FTE
- HighlineResidential construction, single-family, general contractors51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,569 people in all across the county; Silver Star 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Silver Star’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 Madison County.
Silver Star home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Silver Star7
Zip codes with a Silver Star address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Silver Star — 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.