Latah, Washington.
Typical home $340,631 (+1.0% in a year). Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$930 (+108%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,357 +1%
- $337,274$340,631 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,543 +10%
- $309,088$340,631 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.
- Latah$1,788
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Latah, WA rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Latah, Spokane County, Washington
Latah is a town of 185 people in Spokane County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Spokane County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Spokane County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Latah is a very small town in Spokane County, close to the Idaho line, with far fewer people than most towns. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than across the county. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Spokane County, some of the largest workplaces are the Spokane School District, Gonzaga University and the Central Valley School District. The trip to work is a long one, longer than in many places, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Spokane River and to Coeur D'Alene Lake, both good places for time by the water. Steptoe Butte State Park, also a longer drive, is a protected area where a high hilltop looks out over the surrounding countryside.
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- 41 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Spokane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spokane County had 243,704 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 35° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 50°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plummer Wsw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Spokane County
- Spokane School DistrictSchool district3,642FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,993
- City of SpokaneWaste treatment facilities, nonhazardous2,553
- Gonzaga UniversityUniversity or college1,749
- Kalispel Tribal Economic AuthorityCasino hotels1,628
- Central Valley School DistrictSchool district1,618FTE
- Eastern Washington UniversityUniversity or college1,449
- Deaconess Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,354FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 455 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 67,999 people in all across the county; Latah has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Latah’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 Spokane County and the Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA metro.
Latah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Latah$340,631
- Washington$587,533
- 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 Latah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Latah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.