Hauser, Idaho.
Typical home $499,291 (+2.3% in a year). Coeur d'Alene, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,510 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,146 +2%
- $488,145$499,291 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,084 +7%
- $465,207$499,291 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.
- Hauser$2,621
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Hauser, ID rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hauser, Kootenai County, Idaho
Hauser is a city of 761 people in Kootenai County. Half its households earn more than $74,792 a year and half less, against $81,861 across Kootenai County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Kootenai County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hauser is a very small city in Kootenai County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in a place with homes this valuable. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm without being extreme, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in professional and business services. Across Kootenai County, some of the largest workplaces are Kootenai Hospital District, the Coeur D'alene school district and North Idaho College. A good number of people work from home, and for those who commute, the trip is a fairly typical one.
Things to do. The Spokane River is a short drive away, as is the Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail, a protected area set aside for walking and time outdoors. Farther afield, Coeur D'Alene Lake is a longer drive away, and Silverwood Theme Park, an amusement park, is a longer drive as well.
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- 387households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kootenai County had 71,925 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 26°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 56°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coeur D'alene weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kootenai County
- Kootenai Hospital DistrictGeneral hospital3,274FTE
- Coeur D'alene DistrictSchool district1,024FTE
- Silverwood Theme ParkAmusement parks899
- North Idaho CollegeTwo-year college869
- Northwest Specialty HospitalGeneral hospital581FTE
- Post Falls DistrictSchool district577FTE
- Lakeland DistrictSchool district513FTE
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer428
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 140 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,919 people in all across the county; Hauser has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat 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 Hauser’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 Kootenai County and the Coeur d'Alene, ID metro.
Hauser home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hauser$499,291
- 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 Hauser address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hauser — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.