Oldtown, Idaho.
Typical home $521,235 (+4.7% in a year). Sandpoint, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,682 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,383 +5%
- $497,852$521,235 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,519 +14%
- $458,716$521,235 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.
- Oldtown$2,736
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Oldtown, ID rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oldtown, Bonner County, Idaho
Oldtown is a city of 221 people in Bonner County. Half its households earn more than $57,833 a year and half less, against $66,979 across Bonner County. Unemployment in Bonner County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bonner 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oldtown is a very small city in Bonner County, Idaho, with a population that makes it one of the smaller places in the area. Household incomes here run below the county's, while homes are valued well above what incomes here would suggest. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs and lows both staying below freezing, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. A small share work from home. Across Bonner County, some of the largest workplaces are the Lake Pend Oreille School District, Bonner General Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Priest River and the Little Spokane River are both a short drive away, and Kent Creek is close by as well. A longer drive brings you to Priest Lake and to Schweitzer Mountain, a ski area. Mount Spokane State Park is also a longer drive away, for those who like a protected stretch of woods and hills.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Bonner County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bonner County had 16,176 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 32° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 50°. About 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bonner County
- Lake Pend Oreille School DistrictSchool district438FTE
- Husky OperationsAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations376
- Bonner General HospitalCritical access hospital362FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- Litehouse Ella FacilitySalad dressings manufacturing205
- Idaho Forest LacledeSawmills190
- Encoder Products CompanyInstruments for industrial process control manufacturing173
- Life Care Center of SandpointSkilled nursing facilities134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,243 people in all across the county; Oldtown has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oldtown’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 Bonner County and the Sandpoint, ID metro.
Oldtown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oldtown$521,235
- 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.
- Oldtown15
Zip codes with a Oldtown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oldtown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.