Genesee, Idaho.
Typical home $462,241 (+2.9% in a year). Moscow, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,285 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,203 +3%
- $449,038$462,241 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,308 +9%
- $424,933$462,241 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.
- Genesee$2,426
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Genesee, ID rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Genesee, Latah County, Idaho
Genesee is a city of 1,030 people in Latah County. Half its households earn more than $85,673 a year and half less, against $65,424 across Latah County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Latah County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Genesee is a small city in Latah County, Idaho, and a young one in the sense that its residents skew younger than you might expect for a small town. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run well above the county's. A four-year degree is common among adults, and the typical home carries a value that reflects steady demand.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and banking, insurance and property also employing many. Across Latah County, the largest workplaces include the University of Idaho, Gritman Medical Center and the Moscow school district. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Nez Perce National Historical Park, a protected area, and Fort Lapwai, a historic fort, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Hells Gate State Park, a protected area, and to the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow each year, and summers turn warm in August, so the seasons shape what you do outdoors.
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- 481households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Latah County had 15,026 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 22°; warmest in August, with highs near 86° and lows near 45°. About 51 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moscow U Of I weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Latah County
- University of IdahoUniversity or college2,514
- Gritman Medical CenterCritical access hospital483FTE
- Moscow DistrictSchool district306FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
- Bennett Lumber ProductsSawmills172
- Schweitzer Engineering LaboratoriesRelays, electrical and electronic, manufacturing157
- Winco FoodsStore127
- Compass Group121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,128 people in all across the county; Genesee has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Genesee’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 Latah County and the Moscow, ID metro.
Genesee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Genesee$462,241
- 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.
- Genesee7
Zip codes with a Genesee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Genesee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.