Lapwai, Idaho.
Typical home $380,936 (+5.6% in a year). Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,230 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,271 +6%
- $360,664$380,936 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,643 +21%
- $315,293$380,936 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.
- Lapwai$1,999
- 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 Lapwai, ID rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lapwai, Nez Perce County, Idaho
Lapwai is a city of 1,169 people in Nez Perce County. Half its households earn more than $57,439 a year and half less, against $72,599 across Nez Perce County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Nez Perce County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in government, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lapwai is a small city in Nez Perce County, Idaho, with a close, small-town feel. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are valued well above what local incomes might suggest. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a modest amount of snow and rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in the building trades. Across Nez Perce County, some of the largest workplaces are Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Clearwater Paper Lewiston PPD and the Lewiston Independent District. Commutes are short, 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. For time outdoors on the water, the Grande Ronde River is a longer drive away.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nez Perce County had 21,772 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 41° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 61°. About 13 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nez Perce County
- Schweitzer Engineering LaboratoriesElectrical equipment manufacturing946
- Clearwater Paper Lewiston PPDPaperboard mill674
- Lewiston Independent DistrictSchool district548FTE
- St Joseph Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital490FTE
- Lewis-Clark State CollegeUniversity or college436
- Idaho Forest Group LewistonSawmills207
- LewistonMail and parcel delivery161
- Rogers MotorsAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,054 people in all across the county; Lapwai has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Lapwai’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Nez Perce County and the Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
Lapwai home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lapwai$380,936
- 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.
- Lapwai5
Zip codes with a Lapwai address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lapwai — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.