83844 — Moscow, Idaho
Area Profile
Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 83844.
Missing required signal: opportunity. AreaProfile withholds a score rather than inferring the missing dimensions.
Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 163 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 16% on the prior year.
A typical July reaches 83°F and a typical January falls to 28°F, on thirty-year normals.
Natural-hazard exposure sits in the middle range of published ZIP profiles, with wildfire, heat wave and hail the hazards that carry it.
At a glance
Jobs & opportunity
Unemployment of 3.4% is lower than 89% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.
Employment fell 0.1% over the past year, to 13,562 employed residents.
54% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 90% of measured US ZIP areas.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per capita income ±$2,293 | $7,905 | Bottom 1%of 32,822 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Poverty rate | 0.0% | Bottom 1%of 32,970 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Average commute | 10.6 min | Bottom 2%of 32,887 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Bachelor's degree or higher | 54.1% | Top 10%of 33,193 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Employment | 13,562 | Bottom 7%of 6,544 | June 2026 |
| Employment change (3 years) | 2.1% | Top 24%of 6,542 | June 2026 |
| Employment change (year over year) | -0.1% | Top 31%of 6,544 | June 2026 |
| Labor force | 14,041 | Bottom 7%of 6,544 | June 2026 |
| Labor force participation | 48.3% | Bottom 17%of 33,252 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Unemployment change (year over year) | 0.1% | Top 47%of 6,544 | June 2026 |
| Unemployment rate | 3.4% | Bottom 11%of 6,544 | June 2026 |
The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Moscow, ID, the city containing this ZIP code.
Growth & development
How it’s calculated →An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.
At 6.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.
The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Moscow, ID, the city containing this ZIP code.
Weather & climate
4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 83°F and January a low of 28°F.
Normal annual precipitation is 17.5 inches.
Air quality measures a median index of 27, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.
| Metric | Value | Source period |
|---|---|---|
| 90th percentile air quality index | 58.0 | 2024 calendar year |
| Annual precipitation | 17.5" | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average January low | 28°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average July high | 83°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Comfortable months | 4 | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Days above AQI 100 | 1 | 2024 calendar year |
| Median air quality index | 27.0 | 2024 calendar year |
| Seasonal temperature swing | 35°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.
Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.
Physical risk
The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are wildfire, heat wave and hail.
Overall hazard risk is lower than 84% of measured US ZIP areas.
Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, inland flooding, earthquake, strong wind, ice storm, drought, winter weather, tornado, lightning.
Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.
Safety
How it’s measured →These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.
Latah County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.
Drug overdose deaths run at 14.8 per 100,000 residents in Latah County.
Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.
Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Latah County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 83844 rather than 83844 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.
What this profile does not cover
Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.
- Reported crime
- Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
- Taxes
- Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
- Anything about a specific address
- Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.
Access
1 major airport lies within 100 miles, the nearest 66 miles away.
| Airport | Code | Distance | Longest runway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spokane Intl | GEG | 66 mi | 8,199 ft |
| Grant County Intl | MWH | 113 mi | 13,503 ft |
| Missoula Montana | MSO | 139 mi | 9,501 ft |
Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.
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Data & methodology
| Used for | Source | Source period | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access | Federal Aviation Administration Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service | NASR current cycle | 28-day NASR cycle |
| Physical risk | Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Index | National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0) | Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current) |
| Climate | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly) | 1991-2020 Normals | Every ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period) |
| Jobs | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics | June 2026 | Monthly |
| Demographics | U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program | July 1, 2024 estimate | Annual (vintage released each spring) |
| Development | U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey | 12 months ending July 2026 | Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month |
| Demographics, Housing, Income, Jobs | U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File) | 2024 ACS 5-Year | Annual (5-year estimates released each December) |
| safety | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Provisional county-level mortality by intent | April, 2025 to March, 2026 | Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years |
| Climate | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System Daily Air Quality Index by county | 2024 calendar year | Annually, once a calendar year is complete |
Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.
83844 vs Moscow
How this ZIP area compares with Moscow as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.
Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.