Vaughn, Montana.
Typical home $381,440 (+4.3% in a year). Great Falls, MT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,264 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,701 +4%
- $365,739$381,440 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,103 +45%
- $262,337$381,440 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.
- Vaughn$2,002
- Montana$2,453
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Vaughn, MT rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vaughn, Cascade County, Montana
Vaughn, in Cascade County, had 737 people in the 2020 census. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Cascade County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vaughn is a small community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a smaller share of residents hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country. Incomes in the county run on the modest side, and homes in town cost more than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold, with December highs that stay near freezing and lows well below it, while summers are warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, the building trades and retail. Across Cascade County, some of the largest workplaces are Benefis Hospitals, the Great Falls elementary school district and Great Falls Clinic Medical Center. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a short drive each way. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago, though there are slightly fewer jobs across the county than the year before.
Things to do. Muddy Creek runs in or beside town, and First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Great Falls, known for its waterfall, and to the C. M. Russell Museum Complex. Lewis and Clark National Forest is also a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cascade County had 36,192 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 48°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sun River South weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cascade County
- Benefis HospitalsGeneral hospital2,511FTE
- Great Falls Elem SchoolsSchool district925FTE
- Great Falls H S SchoolsSchool district393FTE
- Great Falls Clinic Medical CenterGeneral hospital379FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters348
- University of ProvidenceUniversity or college197
- Sletten Construction CompanyCommercial building construction general contractors178
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 64 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,651 people in all across the county; Vaughn 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 colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vaughn’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 Cascade County and the Great Falls, MT metro.
Vaughn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vaughn$381,440
- 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.
- Vaughn6
Zip codes with a Vaughn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vaughn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.