Plummer, Idaho.
Typical home $310,788 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$942 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,844 +2%
- $304,943$310,788 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,155 +9%
- $284,633$310,788 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.
- Plummer$1,631
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Plummer, ID rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plummer, Benewah County, Idaho
Plummer is a city of 1,015 people in Benewah County. Half its households earn more than $54,306 a year and half less, against $59,794 across Benewah County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Benewah County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plummer is a very small city in Benewah County, Idaho, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is a real part of the picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with the year's precipitation falling as a mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in government. Across Benewah County, the largest workplaces include Potlatchdeltic Land & Lumber, Benewah Community Hospital and the Plummer-worley Joint District. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Heyburn State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Saint Joe River, a good choice for time by the water. For a bigger outing, Coeur D'Alene Lake is a longer drive away. Summers are warm enough for the lake, and winters are cold, which suits the ski area on the list of longer drives, the North–South Ski Bowl.
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- 407households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benewah County had 3,454 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 35° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 50°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plummer Wsw weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benewah County
- Potlatchdeltic Land & LumberPlywood, softwood, manufacturing410
- Marimn HealthClinical pathologists' offices293
- St Maries Joint DistrictSchool district118FTE
- Benewah Community HospitalCritical access hospital94FTE
- Plummer-worley Joint DistrictSchool district74FTE
- Stimson Lumber, St. Maries OperationSawmills69
- Valley Vista Care Center of St. MariesConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals68
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 992 people in all across the county; Plummer has one 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plummer’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 Benewah County.
Plummer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plummer$310,788
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Plummer listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Plummer17.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plummer24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plummer7
Zip codes with a Plummer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plummer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.