Coolin, Idaho.
Typical home $1,186,166 (+11.2% in a year). Sandpoint, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,078 (+190%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $119,617 +11%
- $1,066,549$1,186,166 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $324,357 +38%
- $861,808$1,186,166 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.
- Coolin$6,226
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Coolin, ID rose 11.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coolin, Bonner County, Idaho
Coolin, in Bonner County, had 138 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Bonner County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bonner County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coolin is a very small community on the southern shore of Priest Lake in the Idaho panhandle, with only a few residents year-round. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across Bonner County, and household incomes across the county sit below the national picture, so many of the houses likely serve as lake retreats as well as year-round homes. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month and lows well below freezing, while July brings pleasantly warm days. Snowfall is heavy, and the town gets a fair amount of moisture across the year.
Work. Residents of Coolin work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Bonner County, some of the largest workplaces are the Lake Pend Oreille School District, Bonner General Hospital and Husky Operations, which runs ski facilities. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Priest Lake is a short drive away, and Priest Lake State Park, a protected area on its shore, is close as well, making the water the natural focus for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Schweitzer Mountain, a ski area that suits the snowy winters. Rivers and quieter lakes are scattered around the surrounding countryside for those who like to explore.
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What people in Bonner County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bonner County had 16,176 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 31° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 48°. About 74 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Priest River Experiment Station weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bonner County
- Lake Pend Oreille School DistrictSchool district438FTE
- Husky OperationsAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations376
- Bonner General HospitalCritical access hospital362FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- Litehouse Ella FacilitySalad dressings manufacturing205
- Idaho Forest LacledeSawmills190
- Encoder Products CompanyInstruments for industrial process control manufacturing173
- Life Care Center of SandpointSkilled nursing facilities134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,243 people in all across the county; Coolin has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coolin’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 Bonner County and the Sandpoint, ID metro.
Coolin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coolin$1,186,166
- 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.
- Coolin13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Coolin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coolin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.