Post Falls, Idaho.
Typical home $535,301 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,692 (+4.1%). Coeur d'Alene, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,618 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,961 +3%
- $519,340$535,301 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,791 +8%
- $497,511$535,301 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.
- Post Falls$2,810
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Post Falls, ID rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Post Falls, ID rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Post Falls runs $1,886/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,030 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,578 a month against $1,692 rent: a $2,810 mortgage payment, plus $195 property tax and $573 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Post Falls
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$3,578
- Renting$1,692
- Mortgage only$2,810
Property tax · $195/mo 0.44% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Kootenai County, ID
Insurance & upkeep · $573/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 Post Falls, Kootenai County, Idaho
Post Falls is a city of 38,485 people in Kootenai County. Half its households earn more than $82,183 a year and half less, against $81,861 across Kootenai County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Post Falls was 4.1% in August 2026, and Kootenai County had 1.2% 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. Post Falls is a growing city in northern Idaho, in Kootenai County, with a population on the younger side and a typical household income close to the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are well above what many older homeowners elsewhere in the country may expect. Winters are cold, with highs hovering just above freezing in December, while summers are warm and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Post Falls are Northwest Specialty Hospital, the Post Falls school district and Buck Knives. The job market has been fairly steady, with unemployment a little lower than a year earlier, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Spokane River and the Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail are a short drive away, offering riverside paths and open space, and Fort Sherman, a historic fort, is also close by. Farther afield, Coeur D'Alene Lake is a longer drive away for time on the water, and Silverwood Theme Park, an amusement park, is a longer drive as well.
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- 16,009households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kootenai County had 71,925 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 26°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 56°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coeur D'alene weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Post Falls
- Northwest Specialty HospitalGeneral hospital581FTE
- Post Falls DistrictSchool district577FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Buck KnivesCutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing303
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- RaycapSurge suppressors manufacturing273
- SyscoGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers200
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services191
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,555 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Post Falls’ 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 Kootenai County and the Coeur d'Alene, ID metro.
Post Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Post Falls$535,301
- 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 4 Post Falls listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 days — 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.
- Post Falls26.25%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Post Falls21
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Post Falls283
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Post Falls106
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Post Falls$541,717
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Post Falls98.92%
Zip codes with a Post Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Post Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.