Pierce, Idaho.
Typical home $195,808 (+7.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$696 (+210%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,952 +7%
- $182,856$195,808 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,353 +39%
- $140,455$195,808 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.
- Pierce$1,028
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Pierce, ID rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pierce, Clearwater County, Idaho
Pierce is a city of 467 people in Clearwater County. Half its households earn more than $53,906 a year and half less, against $60,000 across Clearwater County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pierce is a very small city in Clearwater County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most of the country. Winters are cold and very snowy, with the coldest weather in December, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Clearwater County, the largest workplaces include Lightforce USA, Orofino Joint District and Clearwater Valley Health. The typical commute is moderate, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Bald Mountain Ski Area is a short drive away, which suits the long snowy season. Farther afield are the Clearwater River and Dworshak State Park, a protected area, both a longer drive away. The Dworshak National Fish Hatchery is another longer drive for a day out.
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- 181households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 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 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 45°. About 114 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pierce weather station, under a mile 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 across the county; Pierce has none of its own. 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pierce’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 Clearwater County.
Pierce home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pierce$195,808
- 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.
- Pierce7
Zip codes with a Pierce address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pierce — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.