Viola, Idaho.
Typical home $636,234 (+4.7% in a year). Moscow, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,232 (+58%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $28,570 +5%
- $607,665$636,234 since Sep 2025
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.
- Viola$3,339
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Viola, ID rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Viola, Latah County, Idaho
Viola, in Latah County, had 135 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Viola is a very small community in Latah County, Idaho, with an older population than most of the country. Homes here are valued well above what a typical household income in the county would suggest, so it is a place where many people have likely lived for a long time. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a modest yearly amount of rain and melted snow.
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 largest workplaces include the University of Idaho, Gritman Medical Center and the Moscow District schools. Job numbers across the county grew a little last year, and unemployment there is low and has held steady from a year earlier.
Things to do. Closest to home, the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden is a short drive away, and Tamarack Ski Area is also a short drive away for winter days. For a longer outing, Steptoe Butte State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Palouse River is a longer drive away as well.
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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 37° and lows near 27°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 50°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pullman Moscow Regional Airport weather station, 8 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; Viola has none 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 Viola’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.
Viola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Viola$636,234
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Viola5
Zip codes with a Viola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Viola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.