Lenore, Idaho.
Typical home $450,170 (+3.0% in a year). Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,454 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,130 +3%
- $437,041$450,170 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,793 +22%
- $369,377$450,170 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.
- Lenore$2,363
- 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 Lenore, ID rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lenore, Clearwater County, Idaho
The Census does not count Lenore on its own, so the figures here are Clearwater County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,000 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Clearwater County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clearwater County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lenore is a town in Clearwater County in north central Idaho. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and snow is a regular part of the season. Summers are warm, with August the warmest month, and rain and melted snow add a good deal of moisture over the year. Across the county, residents are older on average than the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Across Clearwater County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in the building trades. Unemployment is a little higher than a year earlier, though the number of jobs grew slightly over the past year. A smaller share of adults hold a degree than across the country, typical commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The North Fork Clearwater River is a river a short drive away and is among the best known places nearby. Dworshak State Park, a protected area a longer drive off, and Nez Perce National Historical Park, also a protected area a longer drive away, offer other places to spend a day.
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- 3,636households
- 52.2median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Clearwater County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clearwater County had 2,758 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 39° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 54°. About 18 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dworshak Fish Hatchery weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clearwater County
- Lightforce USAGun sights, optical, manufacturing151
- Orofino Joint DistrictSchool district151FTE
- Clearwater Valley HealthCritical access hospital147FTE
- Empire Lumber Co - Weippe OperationsSawed lumber made in sawmills78
- Clearwater of CascadiaHealthcare50
- US Army Corps of EngineersHydroelectric power generation48
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture37
- AscorpConstruction management, power and communication transmission line34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 667 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clearwater County, 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 Clearwater County and the Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
Lenore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lenore$450,170
- 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.
- Lenore7
Zip codes with a Lenore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lenore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.