Winchester, Idaho.
Typical home $298,116 (+6.6% in a year). Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$902 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,334 +7%
- $279,783$298,116 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,028 +14%
- $262,089$298,116 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.
- Winchester$1,565
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Winchester, ID rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Winchester, Lewis County, Idaho
Winchester is a city of 356 people in Lewis County. Half its households earn more than $45,208 a year and half less, against $51,615 across Lewis County. Unemployment in Lewis County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Winchester is a very small city in Lewis County, Idaho, where people mostly know one another. Household incomes in town are below the county's, and the typical home value is modest for a place with this much open country around it. Winters are cold and snowy, with the coldest days in December, while summers are warm, peaking in August, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, manufacturing and the building trades. Some people work from home. Across Lewis County, the largest workplaces include the Kamiah Joint District school district, the Forest Service and St. Mary's Health & Clearwater Valley Health. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Winchester Lake State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and so does Lapwai Lake, a reservoir. For a longer drive, the Grande Ronde River offers river scenery, and Nez Perce National Historical Park is a protected area that tells part of the region's history. Cottonwood Butte, a ski area, is also a longer drive away and suits the snowy winters.
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- 119households
- 10%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 1,554 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 35° and lows near 22°; warmest in August, with highs near 79° and lows near 48°. About 86 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winchester weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Kamiah Joint DistrictSchool district60FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture43
- St. Mary's Health & Clearwater Valley HealthFamily physicians' offices30
- Highland Joint DistrictSchool district28FTE
- Nezperce Joint DistrictSchool district28FTE
- Simmons Sanitation ServiceGarbage collection services27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57 people in all across the county; Winchester has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Winchester’s 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 Lewis County and the Lewiston, ID-WA metro.
Winchester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Winchester$298,116
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Winchester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Winchester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.