Use this page to orient around housing, rent, utilities, taxes, insurance, groceries, transportation, and income fit before opening a city dashboard.
Cost of Living in Idaho
Explore cost of living in Idaho with state context, city dashboard links, related cost categories, home improvement guides, and planning notes. Compare household cost drivers by state, then narrow into city dashboards for local housing, utility, tax, insurance, and demographic context.
City pages help connect statewide averages to housing, income, utility, climate, and demographic signals.
Verify exact providers, parcel records, insurance quotes, and local fees for the actual address.
Pair household cost research with local home improvement cost guides for repairs, maintenance, and upgrades.
Frames affordability before housing, taxes, utilities, and insurance.
Ownership pressure signal; city dashboards show place-level detail.
Renter-side monthly cost baseline.
Ownership carrying cost to read beside home value.
Idaho Cost of Living Data Detail
Idaho cost of living is summarized here as a statewide category page, not as a duplicate of the state dashboard. The table emphasizes income, home value, rent, property tax, and utility benchmarks because those are the fields that usually explain household budget fit across 200 city records.
| City | Population | Income | Home value | Rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bliss | 252 | $67,250 | -- | -- |
| Placerville | 37 | $78,750 | -- | -- |
| Grace | 1,345 | $69,286 | $180k | $271/mo |
| Oakley | 846 | $93,333 | $220k | $642/mo |
| Clifton | 774 | $97,750 | $286k | $692/mo |
| Harrison | 243 | $95,417 | $339k | $725/mo |
| Spencer | 28 | $70,972 | $112k | -- |
| Roberts | 534 | $57,083 | $154k | $481/mo |
| Nezperce | 537 | $59,063 | $176k | $500/mo |
| Aberdeen | 2,418 | $67,813 | $145k | $663/mo |
| Acequia | 223 | $51,042 | $87k | -- |
| Ferdinand | 182 | $61,250 | $215k | $613/mo |
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How This Page Differs From the Dashboard
The Idaho dashboard is a broad place overview. This cost of living page is a category detail page: it narrows the page around one search intent, compares the same metric family across major city records, and links back to city dashboards when local context is needed.
Use this page for statewide scanning, then open a city dashboard for neighborhood-level context and local comparisons. Use parcel records, provider bills, insurance quotes, and local fee schedules before treating any number as address-specific.
Source Notes
City-level values come from the Census ACS 2023 ACS 5-year place dataset where a matching city record exists. Electricity is a state-level EIA benchmark for 2026-04. Unemployment is a state-level BLS benchmark for May 2026. State-level benchmarks are planning context and are not city-specific provider prices, parcel tax bills, or insurance quotes. Review the DataByArea methodology.
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Methodology Notes
DataByArea combines public data signals, city metrics, state-level utility and economic context, and related local resources. Where city-specific values are not available, pages should be read as planning context rather than exact quotes.
Source Context
Depending on the metric, DataByArea may use Census ACS, BLS, EIA, BEA, FRED, local assessor context, and city datasets. State-level values are not presented as parcel-level or household-specific quotes.