Superior, Montana.
Typical home $383,032 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,289 (+179%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,987 +2%
- $376,045$383,032 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,603 +26%
- $303,429$383,032 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.
- Superior$2,010
- 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 Superior, MT rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Superior, Mineral County, Montana
Superior is a town of 830 people in Mineral County. Half its households earn more than $45,250 a year and half less, against $63,450 across Mineral County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Mineral County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mineral County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Superior is a small town in western Montana, the kind of place where most people know one another. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes here are worth a good deal more than those incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, while July brings warm, hot afternoons, and the year's precipitation is modest, falling as a mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with the building trades, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Superior are Mineral Community Hospital, Superior K-12 Schools and the Forest Service. Unemployment across Mineral County is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Bouchard Lake is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time by the water. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Lolo National Forest, a large protected area for hiking and camping, and the St. Regis River, a river suited to fishing and quiet walks along its banks.
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- 426households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Mineral County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mineral County had 1,203 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 34° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 51°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Superior weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Superior
- Mineral Community HospitalCritical access hospital72FTE
- Superior K-12 SchoolsSchool district58FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture52
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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively 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 Superior’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 Mineral County.
Superior home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Superior$383,032
- Montana$467,275
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Superior listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Superior30.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Superior28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Superior6
Zip codes with a Superior address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Superior — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.