Kamiah, Idaho.
Typical home $323,323 (+3.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,026 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,650 +3%
- $312,674$323,323 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,787 +16%
- $277,536$323,323 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.
- Kamiah$1,697
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Kamiah, ID rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kamiah, Idaho County, Idaho
Kamiah is a city of 1,117 people in Idaho County. Half its households earn more than $36,071 a year and half less, against $66,325 across Idaho County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Idaho County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kamiah is a small city in Idaho County, and its residents are older than in most American towns. Incomes run well below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than is typical. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming, forestry and mining, and the building trades also employing local people. Across Idaho County, the largest workplaces include Idaho Forest Group Grangeville, a sawmill operation, St. Marys Health, a critical access hospital, and Mountain View School District. Jobs across the county have slipped slightly from a year earlier, and the commute to work is short.
Things to do. The Clearwater River and the Kooskia National Fish Hatchery are both a short drive away, one a river and the other a park-like spot to walk and look around. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Dworshak State Park, a protected area, and to Cottonwood Butte, a ski area. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers turn quite hot.
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- 546households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Idaho County had 4,573 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer 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 91° and lows near 52°. About 11 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kamiah weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Idaho County
- Idaho Forest Group GrangevilleSawmills180
- St. Marys HealthCritical access hospital160FTE
- Mountain View School DistrictSchool district144FTE
- Pacific CabinetsArchitectural woodwork and fixtures manufacturing135
- Syringa General HospitalCritical access hospital122FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture90
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture79
- Empire LumberLumber made from logs or bolts67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 647 people in all across the county; Kamiah has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kamiah’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Idaho County.
Kamiah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kamiah$323,323
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Kamiah listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Kamiah21.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kamiah34
Zip codes with a Kamiah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kamiah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.