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Place dossier plate
SheetID-IDAHO-FALLS-ID · Idaho Falls, ID 66,672 pop · income 49th pct · 6 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Idaho Falls
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Idaho Falls on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Rexburg · lowest
50,359
Rexburg · lowest
50,359 median HH income
52.5% of the leader · rank #1
Bendon · near
69,625
Bendon · near
69,625 median HH income
72.6% of the leader · rank #2
Idaho Falls · this city
69,630
Idaho Falls · this city
69,630 median HH income
72.6% of the leader · rank #3
Bridgeville · near
69,631
Bridgeville · near
69,631 median HH income
72.6% of the leader · rank #4
Oregon · near
69,632
Oregon · near
69,632 median HH income
72.6% of the leader · rank #5
Fort Gibson · near
69,632
Fort Gibson · near
69,632 median HH income
72.6% of the leader · rank #6
Palatine · highest
95,950
Palatine · highest
95,950 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Idaho Falls on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 66,672.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Idaho Falls - the verdict
Nationally, Idaho Falls sits in the 49th percentile for household income and the 44th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
49th
percentile, household income
65th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
44th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Idaho Falls, ID
Idaho's Idaho Falls is a small city, with 66,672 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Idaho Falls report a median income of $69,630 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.1%. Typical homes in Idaho Falls are valued around $298,600, and the median resident age is 33.5 years. Educational attainment runs 31.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,729 residential building permits were authorized in Idaho Falls (Building Boom), up 451% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Idaho Falls reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1565.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 42.7°F with 8.2 inches of precipitation per year and 24.8 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Idaho run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Idaho scores 95.5 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,173 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Idaho's average monthly utility costs around $170 (state average). Workers in Idaho Falls report an average commute of 16.7 minutes, with 74.0% driving alone and 8.3% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 38.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Idaho Falls's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to within-city variation to reported crime to schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Idaho Falls, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Idaho Falls?
Within Idaho, the closest population matches are Caldwell (63,465 residents, $66,663 income); Pocatello (57,152 residents, $57,931 income); Coeur d'Alene (55,558 residents, $70,845 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Palatine, IL (66,548 residents); Davis, CA (66,801 residents); Skokie, IL (66,427 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can 6 Census tracts reveal inside Idaho Falls?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Idaho Falls?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1565.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 31% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the education layer cover for Idaho Falls?
The NCES join finds 44 public schools within the city match. 31.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Idaho Falls?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$69,630
Home value
$298,600
Value / income
4.3×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Idaho Falls?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.7 minutes.
Public transit
2.6%
Work from home
8.3%
Drive alone
74.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 30,799 workers age 16+.
What physical conditions frame life in Idaho Falls?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 42.7°F, with 8.2 inches of precipitation and 24.8 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Idaho is 38.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
42.7°F
Annual precipitation
8.2 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
38.5
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Is Idaho Falls growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,877 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,729 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+8.9%
2025 estimate
71,785
2020 estimate
65,908
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 8.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
95.5 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Idaho average
D
City profile score · Idaho Falls, ID
48/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living C+
95.5 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$69,630
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
357 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Idaho Falls profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 61/100 (C+) · 95.5 index
Bachelor's+ share: 60/100 (C+) · 31.0%
Household income: 49/100 (D) · $69,630
Poverty rate: 47/100 (D) · 8.1%
Violent crime: 25/100 (F) · 357 /100k
Where Idaho Falls sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Idaho Falls's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Idaho Falls highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Idaho Falls, ID (this city): home $298,600, crime 1,566/100k
Palatine, IL : home $347,900, crime 1,008/100k
Davis, CA : home $829,000, crime 2,398/100k
Skokie, IL : home $368,600, crime 2,890/100k
Delray Beach, FL : home $386,700, crime 3,053/100k
Waterloo, IA : home $150,200, crime 2,921/100k
Caldwell, ID : home $322,100, crime 1,430/100k
Pocatello, ID : home $240,600, crime 1,928/100k
Coeur d'Alene, ID : home $451,600, crime 1,197/100k
Twin Falls, ID : home $279,400, crime 1,543/100k
Post Falls, ID : home $425,100, crime 794/100k
Rexburg, ID : home $384,000, crime 593/100k
How does Idaho Falls compare to other US cities?
Idaho Falls measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income49% higher than other cities
Home value65% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety44% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Idaho, Idaho Falls ranks #50 of 53 Idaho cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Idaho Falls against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Idaho only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Idaho-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Idaho Falls near the bottom of Idaho's cities
Among the 215 Idaho cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Idaho Falls ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Idaho Falls only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#77 of 206
63rd percentile in Idaho
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 215
0th percentile in Idaho
Median Home Value
#63 of 204
69th percentile in Idaho
Poverty Rate
#109 of 215
49th percentile in Idaho
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#46 of 215
79th percentile in Idaho
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Idaho only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
49th percentile nationally for median household income · 44th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Idaho Falls's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Idaho Falls's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Idaho Falls's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$298,60035th percentilemore affordable than 35% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Idaho Falls's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,489 of 15,516
More affordable than 26% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#358 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.3×, Idaho Falls sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,489 of 15,516 and #358 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$69,630Idaho Falls, ID median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Idaho Falls, ID median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Idaho Falls, ID.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
66,672
Median Income
$69,630
Median Home Value
$298,600
Median Age
33.5
Poverty Rate
8.1%
Labor force participation
62.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1565.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
356.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1209.3
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
42.7°F
Annual Precipitation
8.2"
Annual Snowfall
24.8"
Schools
Total Schools
44
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Idaho Falls's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
65,908 residents
2021
67,170 residents
2022
67,807 residents
2023
68,065 residents
2024
69,568 residents
2025
71,785 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,729
housing units authorized
Single-Family
662
detached homes
Multifamily
1,067
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
25.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
314
314
0
$49.1M
2020
324
324
0
$54.7M
2021
555
555
0
$97.9M
2022
379
307
72
$68.4M
2023
1,031
248
783
$133.4M
2024
1,729
662
1,067
$223.6M
Permit volume increased 451% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.7 minutes
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
11.4%
Public Transit
2.6%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
8.3%
Other
2.2%
Based on 30,799 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Idaho statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $170
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Idaho at $170 (electricity about $80 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Idaho statewide averages, not a meter reading for Idaho Falls. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Idaho's BEA cost-of-living index is 95.5 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Idaho Falls is $1,173/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Idaho statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 38.5 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Idaho statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Idaho Falls sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Idaho Falls compares to similar-size Idaho cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.