Stanley, Idaho.
Typical home $911,634 (+32.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,516 (+277%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $222,332 +32%
- $689,303$911,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $377,171 +71%
- $534,464$911,634 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.
- Stanley$4,785
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 6 years.
Typical home values in Stanley, ID rose 32.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanley, Custer County, Idaho
Stanley is a city of 116 people in Custer County. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Custer County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 4.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanley is a very small city in Custer County, Idaho, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with temperatures well below freezing for much of the season, and summers are warm. The town is not especially wet, and most of the year is dry and clear.
Work. Nearly everyone in Stanley works from home, so daily life tends to centre on the house and the surrounding land. Across Custer County, the number of jobs grew over the past year, which is a modest sign of steady work for those who need it.
Things to do. Redfish Lake is a lake a short drive away, and Stanley Lake is another lake close by. For a longer outing, the Sawtooth Wilderness is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 99%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 25° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 34°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stanley weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Custer County
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture60
- Challis Joint DistrictSchool district52FTE
- Mackay Joint DistrictSchool district26FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture24
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture23
Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LandslidesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stanley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Custer County.
Stanley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanley$911,634
- 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 Stanley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.