Pocatello, ID Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Pocatello, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Pocatello sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 189
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $324,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $175
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $262,900 and $405,000

One thing to know about Idaho data: Idaho is a non-disclosure state, which means sale prices are not public record. The sold figures above come from closings Resideline tracked directly.

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 189 closed sales in Pocatello over the last six months, with a median closing price of $324,900. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $262,900 and $405,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 94% of the Pocatello closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 186 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $151 and $206 per square foot.

Figures last updated November 4, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Pocatello, ID (October 2026)

The median home price in Pocatello is $324,900, measured across the 189 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $262,900 and $405,000.

Where Pocatello sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Pocatello over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $262,900 and $405,000. Among the 9 Idaho markets with a published band, Pocatello's middle-half spread ($262,900 to $405,000) ranks 6th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 30th percentile of the 2,291 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of November 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 21 days, across 54 Pocatello closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 53 Pocatello closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 189 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Pocatello angle

Pocatello's tracked record over the last six months shows 189 closings, a median closed sale price of $324,900, and a middle half of sales running from $262,900 to $405,000. The width of that band is typical for the markets we track, meaning half of local sales landed inside it and a full quarter closed beyond each side of it. That is normal dispersion, not noise, and it defines what the median can and cannot do in Pocatello: it can tell you the level a typical sale carries, and it cannot tell you where a specific property belongs. Let matched closed sales make that second call, and use the band to judge whether an estimate needs an explanation for where it sits.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in Idaho: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Idaho homes, and most Idaho estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Idaho one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Pocatello address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Pocatello, ID
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1664090
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 189
Median sold price: $324,900
Median sold $/sqft: $175 (186 qualifying)
Property mix: 94% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Pocatello over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.