Pocatello, Idaho.
Typical home $339,631 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $1,049 (-0.3%). Pocatello, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,050 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,511 +2%
- $334,120$339,631 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,590 +20%
- $283,041$339,631 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.
- Pocatello$1,783
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Pocatello, ID rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pocatello, ID fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pocatello runs $1,278/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,359 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,327 a month against $1,049 rent: a $1,783 mortgage payment, plus $181 property tax and $364 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pocatello
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,327
- Renting$1,049
- Mortgage only$1,783
Property tax · $181/mo 0.64% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Bannock County, ID
Insurance & upkeep · $364/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho
Pocatello is a city of 56,320 people in Bannock County. Half its households earn more than $60,418 a year and half less, against $66,499 across Bannock County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Pocatello was 4.3% in August 2026, and Bannock County had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Pocatello is a city in Bannock County, and it is a younger place than much of the country, with many students and families. Incomes run below the county's as a whole, and more people live below the poverty line than most would want to see. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in December and plenty of snow, and summers turn hot by July, with fairly little rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. The biggest workplaces in Pocatello include Idaho State University, Portneuf Medical Center and the Pocatello school district. Commutes are short, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago, and across the county there are slightly more jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. In or beside town, the ICCU Dome is a stadium, the Idaho Museum of Natural History is a museum, and the Idaho State Arboretum is a botanical garden. Zoo Idaho is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Pebble Creek is a ski area, which suits the snowy winters.
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- 22,510households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bannock County had 38,273 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 59°. About 30 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pocatello City weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pocatello
- Idaho State UniversityUniversity or college1,983
- Portneuf Medical Center1,554
- Pocatello DistrictSchool district1,143FTE
- Portneuf Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,089FTE
- LA SemiconductorSemiconductor devices manufacturing358
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer224
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters221
- New Day ProductsVocational rehabilitation job training facilities205
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,787 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pocatello’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Bannock County and the Pocatello, ID metro.
Pocatello home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pocatello$339,631
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Pocatello listings, and the typical home goes pending in 45 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Pocatello28.67%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pocatello45
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pocatello315
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pocatello71
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pocatello$323,243
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Pocatello address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pocatello — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Pocatello
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83201 | Pocatello | 39,902 | $1,132 | $334,148 |
| 83204 | Pocatello | 18,580 | $897 | $329,394 |