Carmen, Idaho.
Typical home $637,174 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,303 (+221%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $49,623 +8%
- $587,551$637,174 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $206,722 +48%
- $430,453$637,174 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.
- Carmen$3,344
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Carmen, ID rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carmen, Lemhi County, Idaho
The Census does not count Carmen on its own, so the figures here are Lemhi County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,202 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Lemhi County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lemhi County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carmen is a small community in Lemhi County, in the mountains of east-central Idaho. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm. Across Lemhi County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's typical home value is high for the area.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Others work in farming, forestry and mining, or in the building trades. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year ago. Most commutes are short, and only a small share of workers work from home.
Things to do. The Lemhi River is a river a short drive away, and Tower Creek, another river, is also close by. The Salmon–Challis National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the Big Hole National Battlefield, an archaeological site.
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- 3,458households
- 53.3median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Lemhi County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lemhi County had 2,789 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 52°. About 22 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salmon-ksra weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lemhi County
- Steele Memorial Medical CenterCritical access hospital132FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture121
- Salmon DistrictSchool district83FTE
- Discovery Rehabilitation and LivingSkilled nursing facilities71
- QBArches, glue laminated or pre-engineered wood, manufacturing57
- Ranch and Home SupplyRetail36
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior24
- Missoula Brewing companyBeer brewing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 186 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lemhi County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Lemhi County.
Carmen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carmen$637,174
- Idaho$476,754
- 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.
- Carmen7
Zip codes with a Carmen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carmen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Carmen
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83462 | Carmen | 667 | — | $627,822 |
| 83466 | North Fork | 197 | — | $503,201 |