Culdesac, Idaho.
Typical home $380,652 (+3.5% in a year). Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,216 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,904 +4%
- $367,748$380,652 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,992 +25%
- $304,660$380,652 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.
- Culdesac$1,998
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Culdesac, ID rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Culdesac, Nez Perce County, Idaho
Culdesac is a city of 413 people in Nez Perce County. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Nez Perce County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nez Perce County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Culdesac is a very small town in Nez Perce County, Idaho, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with a great deal of snow through the season, while summers are warm. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is valued well below what many older buyers might expect from other parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Nez Perce County, some of the largest workplaces are Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Clearwater Paper Lewiston PPD and the Lewiston Independent District. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and the daily trip to work is fairly long, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Nez Perce National Historical Park and Fort Lapwai are both a short drive away, and Winchester Lake State Park, a protected area, is also close by. For a longer outing, Hells Gate State Park and the Grande Ronde River are a longer drive away.
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- 168households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Nez Perce County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nez Perce County had 21,772 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nez Perce County
- Schweitzer Engineering LaboratoriesElectrical equipment manufacturing946
- Clearwater Paper Lewiston PPDPaperboard mill674
- Lewiston Independent DistrictSchool district548FTE
- St Joseph Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital490FTE
- Lewis-Clark State CollegeUniversity or college436
- Idaho Forest Group LewistonSawmills207
- LewistonMail and parcel delivery161
- Rogers MotorsAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,054 people in all across the county; Culdesac has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Culdesac’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 Nez Perce County and the Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
Culdesac home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Culdesac$380,652
- 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.
Zip codes with a Culdesac address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Culdesac — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.