Osburn, Idaho.
Typical home $283,769 (+1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$388 (+35%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $2,841 +1%
- $280,928$283,769 since Sep 2025
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.
- Osburn$1,489
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Osburn, ID rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Osburn, Shoshone County, Idaho
Osburn is a city of 1,567 people in Shoshone County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Shoshone County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Osburn is a small city in Shoshone County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes across the county run below the national picture, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and some people work from home, though most travel a short way to their jobs. Winters are cold and very snowy, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm in July. There is plenty of moisture through the year, much of it falling as snow.
Work. Residents of Osburn work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in farming, forestry and mining, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Shoshone County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Shoshone Medical Center and the Kellogg Joint District schools. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Silver Mountain, a ski area, is a short drive away and suits the long snowy winters. A longer drive brings you to Coeur d'Alene National Forest and St. Joe National Forest, both protected areas of woods and trails. Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area, another ski area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 819households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shoshone County had 4,923 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 33° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 51°. About 76 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wallace weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shoshone County
- S & W OpsSki lodges and resorts with accommodations193
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters168
- Kellogg Joint DistrictSchool district156FTE
- Shoshone Medical CenterCritical access hospital91FTE
- Wallace DistrictSchool district78FTE
- Kellogg of CascadiaHealthcare76
- F & BFamily restaurants, full service70
- Silverton of CascadiaNursing home64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 655 people in all across the county; Osburn 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Osburn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Shoshone County.
Osburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Osburn$283,769
- 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.
- Osburn12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Osburn5
Zip codes with a Osburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Osburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Osburn
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83849 | Osburn | 2,086 | — | $284,169 |
| 83867 | Silverton | 652 | — | $310,838 |