Dover, Idaho.
Typical home $808,272 (+2.8% in a year). Sandpoint, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,605 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,062 +3%
- $786,211$808,272 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $143,332 +22%
- $664,940$808,272 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.
- Dover$4,242
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Dover, ID rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover, Bonner County, Idaho
Dover is a city of 752 people in Bonner County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover is a very small city, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Typical home values are high, which is worth knowing for anyone weighing a move, and poverty is uncommon. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily commute is short. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while August brings the warmest days, comfortably warm rather than hot.
Work. Residents 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 Litehouse Ella Facility, which makes salad dressings. Unemployment across the county is close to where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Round Lake and Round Lake State Park are a short drive away for time by the water and in the woods. Schweitzer Mountain, a ski area, is also a short drive, which suits the snowy winters here. For a night out, the Panida Theater is a short drive away, and Lake Pend Oreille, a larger lake, is a longer drive.
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- 47%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
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 34° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 50°. About 62 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandpoint Experiment Station weather station, 3 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; Dover 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of DoverRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dover’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Dover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover$808,272
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dover listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Dover27.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dover27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dover6
Zip codes with a Dover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.