A typical Heron home is worth about $564,000
Up 4.8% in a year, 19% above the Montana typical home.
Up 22.3% in five years
About the same pace as Montana (25%).
Show as a table
| January | Heron | Montana |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $262,000 | $233,000 |
| 2018 | $281,000 | $248,000 |
| 2019 | $296,000 | $262,000 |
| 2020 | $315,000 | $277,000 |
| 2021 | $375,000 | $318,000 |
| 2022 | $501,000 | $406,000 |
| 2023 | $553,000 | $434,000 |
| 2024 | $535,000 | $447,000 |
| 2025 | $546,000 | $464,000 |
| 2026 | $552,000 | $468,000 |
| August 2026 | $564,000 | $472,000 |
A typical Heron home worth $255K in September 2016 is worth about $564K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
What it takes to buy in Heron
Try your own numbers below.
That’s $272K short of a typical Heron home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,670 a month here, $1,620 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Montana typical property tax (0.72% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,670
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Sanders County, MT): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
60% of Heron households own their home
Half of Heron’s homes were built before 1976.
Montana: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Heron buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.