Potlatch, Idaho.
Typical home $304,307 (+9.6% in a year). Moscow, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$914 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,778 +10%
- $277,530$304,307 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,342 +25%
- $243,965$304,307 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.
- Potlatch$1,597
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Potlatch, ID rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Potlatch, Latah County, Idaho
Potlatch is a city of 763 people in Latah County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Latah County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Latah County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Potlatch is a very small city in Latah County, Idaho, and nearly everyone who lives there owns the home they live in, a good deal more than across most of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many college towns, though the University of Idaho is not far off. Winters are cold, with December highs a little above freezing and plenty of snow, and summers turn warm in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Latah County, the biggest workplaces include the University of Idaho, Gritman Medical Center and the Moscow District school system. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Tamarack Ski Area is a ski area a short drive away, which suits the snowy winters. A longer drive brings you to McCroskey State Park, a protected area, and to the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden. The Potlatch River is also among the nearby rivers, a longer drive from town.
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- 25%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Latah County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Latah County had 15,026 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 25°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 48°. About 41 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Potlatch Nne weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Latah County
- University of IdahoUniversity or college2,514
- Gritman Medical CenterCritical access hospital483FTE
- Moscow DistrictSchool district306FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
- Bennett Lumber ProductsSawmills172
- Schweitzer Engineering LaboratoriesRelays, electrical and electronic, manufacturing157
- Winco FoodsStore127
- Compass Group121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,128 people in all across the county; Potlatch has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Potlatch’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Latah County and the Moscow, ID metro.
Potlatch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Potlatch$304,307
- 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.
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.
Zip codes with a Potlatch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Potlatch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.