Nezperce, Idaho.
Typical home $317,799 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,026 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,969 +4%
- $306,829$317,799 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,468 +23%
- $258,331$317,799 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.
- Nezperce$1,668
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Nezperce, ID rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nezperce, Lewis County, Idaho
Nezperce is a city of 458 people in Lewis County. Half its households earn more than $62,857 a year and half less, against $51,615 across Lewis County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Lewis County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nezperce is a very small city on the Camas Prairie in Lewis County, Idaho, with a population that has stayed modest for a long time. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the town gets a fair amount of moisture across the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in government. Commutes are short, and incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, though a share of residents still live below the poverty line. Among the largest workplaces across Lewis County are the Nezperce Joint District schools, the Forest Service and the Kamiah Joint District schools.
Things to do. The Nez Perce National Historic Trail, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby places. A longer drive brings you to Winchester Lake State Park, a protected area, and to Tolo Lake, a lake. The Clearwater River, one of the best known waterways around, is also a longer drive away.
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- 204households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 1,554 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 34° and lows near 21°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 48°. About 29 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nezperce weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Kamiah Joint DistrictSchool district60FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture43
- St. Mary's Health & Clearwater Valley HealthFamily physicians' offices30
- Highland Joint DistrictSchool district28FTE
- Nezperce Joint DistrictSchool district28FTE
- Simmons Sanitation ServiceGarbage collection services27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57 people in all across the county; Nezperce has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nezperce’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 Lewis County.
Nezperce home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nezperce$317,799
- 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.
- Nezperce7
Zip codes with a Nezperce address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nezperce — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.