Hope, Idaho.
Typical home $755,188 (+1.6% in a year). Sandpoint, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,314 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,877 +2%
- $743,311$755,188 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,061 +8%
- $701,127$755,188 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.
- Hope$3,964
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Hope, ID rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hope, Bonner County, Idaho
Hope is a city of 98 people in Bonner County. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hope is a small city in Bonner County, in the northern panhandle of Idaho, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters here are cold and snowy, and summers are warm. Rain and melted snow arrive through the year, so the land stays green and the air often feels damp.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services. Across Bonner County, jobs grew slightly over the last year, and unemployment eased a little.
Things to do. Lake Pend Oreille is a short drive away and is one of the larger lakes in the area. The Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center is also a short drive away and suits a rainy afternoon. Schweitzer Mountain, a ski area a longer drive away, is a place to visit in the snowy months.
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- 26 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, 12 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; Hope 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Hope’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Bonner County and the Sandpoint, ID metro.
Hope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hope$755,188
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Hope 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.
- Hope17.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hope27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hope9
Zip codes with a Hope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.