North Fork, Idaho.
Typical home $505,624 (+5.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,662 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,473 +6%
- $478,151$505,624 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,579 +24%
- $409,046$505,624 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.
- North Fork$2,654
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in North Fork, ID rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Fork, Lemhi County, Idaho
The Census does not count North Fork on its own, so the figures here are Lemhi County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,202 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North Fork is a small town in Lemhi County, in the mountains of east-central Idaho, where the North Fork Salmon River runs nearby. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with snow in the cold months. Across Lemhi County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older than the national middle, with a sizable share of households living near the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, and in the building trades. Unemployment has edged up slightly over the past year, but the county added jobs in the most recent year on record. Only a minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home, while most people's trip to work is fairly short.
Things to do. The Salmon–Challis National Forest, a protected area, lies a longer drive away and offers a large expanse of public land to explore. The North Fork Salmon River, a short drive away, is a natural place for a riverside outing. Painted Rocks State Park, another protected area a longer drive away, is worth a visit for those who want a day trip.
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- 3,458households
- 53.3median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
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 January, with highs near 29° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 46°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gibbonsville #2 weather station, 10 miles 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. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lemhi County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lemhi County.
North Fork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Fork$505,624
- 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 North Fork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Fork — 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.