Leadore, Idaho.
Typical home $365,724 (+9.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,313 (+216%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,695 +10%
- $333,029$365,724 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,883 +43%
- $255,841$365,724 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.
- Leadore$1,920
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Leadore, ID rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leadore, Lemhi County, Idaho
Leadore is a city of 98 people in Lemhi County. Half its households earn more than $30,568 a year and half less, against $53,202 across Lemhi County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Lemhi County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lemhi 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leadore is a very small town in Lemhi County, in the mountains of east-central Idaho. Winters are long and cold, and summers are warm. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes here are lower than the county's as a whole.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, and in the building trades. Across Lemhi County, job numbers have edged up over the past year.
Things to do. Agency Creek, the best known of the rivers near town, is a longer drive away, and Bloody Dick Creek and Hayden Creek are also a longer drive away. Each of these is a river, so they suit anyone who enjoys time by moving water.
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What people in Lemhi County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lemhi County had 2,789 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 41°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leadore #2 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lemhi County
- Steele Memorial Medical CenterCritical access hospital132FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture121
- Salmon DistrictSchool district83FTE
- Discovery Rehabilitation and LivingSkilled nursing facilities71
- QBArches, glue laminated or pre-engineered wood, manufacturing57
- Ranch and Home SupplyRetail36
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior24
- Missoula Brewing companyBeer brewing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 186 people in all across the county; Leadore has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leadore’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 Lemhi County.
Leadore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leadore$365,724
- 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 Leadore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leadore — 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.