Rockland, Idaho.
Typical home $252,066 (+3.1% in a year). Pocatello, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$741 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,533 +3%
- $244,533$252,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,184 +8%
- $232,882$252,066 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.
- Rockland$1,323
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Rockland, ID rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockland, Power County, Idaho
Rockland is a city of 242 people in Power County. Unemployment in Power County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Power County work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockland is a very small city in Power County, Idaho, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Homes here are valued well within reach compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot in July. Little rain or melted snow falls over a year, so the climate is on the dry side.
Work. Residents work mostly in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in manufacturing. Few people work from home. Across Power County, some of the largest workplaces are Lamb Weston, which makes frozen vegetable products, JR Simplot Co, a fertilizer manufacturer, and the American Falls Joint District, a school district. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year ago, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Massacre Rocks State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Walcott is a reservoir in the same longer-drive range. Zoo Idaho, also a longer drive away, offers a day out with a zoo. Each of these takes some planning, as nothing on this list is close by.
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- 3%work from home
What people in Power County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Power County had 3,919 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 53°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Massacre Rocks Sp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Power County
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing803
- JR Simplot CoFertilizer manufacturing417
- Stone Ridge Contracting, IdahoOutdoor recreation facility construction289
- American Falls Joint DistrictSchool district204FTE
- Power County Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital70FTE
- Gehring Agri BusinessPotato farming, field and seed potato production62
- Stotz EquipmentAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers49
- E&R TransportationTrucking, specialized freight, local44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,872 people in all across the county; Rockland has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockland’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 Power County and the Pocatello, ID metro.
Rockland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockland$252,066
- 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.
Zip codes with a Rockland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.