Craigmont, Idaho.
Typical home $315,908 (+3.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,019 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,150 +4%
- $304,758$315,908 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,309 +19%
- $264,599$315,908 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.
- Craigmont$1,658
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Craigmont, ID rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Craigmont, Lewis County, Idaho
Craigmont is a city of 458 people in Lewis County. Half its households earn more than $60,000 a year and half less, against $51,615 across Lewis County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Lewis County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Craigmont is a very small city, with far fewer people than most places in the country, and almost every home is lived in by its owner. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than one might expect in a rural area. Winters are cold and snowy, with the coldest days in December, while August brings warm days that stay comfortable rather than hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and forestry, and transport and utilities also employing many. Across Lewis County, the largest workplaces include the Kamiah Joint District, the Forest Service, and St. Mary's Health & Clearwater Valley Health. Commutes are fairly short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Winchester Lake State Park is a protected area suited to a day out by the water, and Lapwai Lake is a reservoir close by. The Nez Perce National Historic Trail also lies a short drive from town. Those willing to go farther can reach Cottonwood Butte, a ski area, which fits the snowy winters.
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- 228households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 1,554 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 35° and lows near 22°; warmest in August, with highs near 79° and lows near 48°. About 86 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winchester weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Kamiah Joint DistrictSchool district60FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture43
- St. Mary's Health & Clearwater Valley HealthFamily physicians' offices30
- Highland Joint DistrictSchool district28FTE
- Nezperce Joint DistrictSchool district28FTE
- Simmons Sanitation ServiceGarbage collection services27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57 people in all across the county; Craigmont has one of its own. School districts come 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Craigmont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Lewis County.
Craigmont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Craigmont$315,908
- 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.
- Craigmont9
Zip codes with a Craigmont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Craigmont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.