Albion, Idaho.
Typical home $309,663 (+6.1% in a year). Burley, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$967 (+147%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,773 +6%
- $291,890$309,663 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,265 +20%
- $257,398$309,663 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.
- Albion$1,625
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Albion, ID rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albion, Cassia County, Idaho
Albion is a city of 234 people in Cassia County. Half its households earn more than $68,125 a year and half less, against $70,830 across Cassia County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cassia County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cassia County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Albion is a very small city, home to far fewer people than most towns in the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and the typical home is valued at less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while July afternoons turn hot. Snow falls through the cold months, and the year as a whole is dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many. Across Cassia County, some of the largest workplaces are McCain Foods Burley, the Cassia County school district and Cassia Regional Hospital. The typical commute is a short one by national standards, and the county's unemployment rate has crept up slightly from a year earlier.
Things to do. Pomerelle, a ski area, and Lake Cleveland are both a short drive away, which suits winter days on the slopes and summer days by the water. For a longer outing, City of Rocks National Reserve is a protected area a longer drive away, and Goose Creek, a river, lies in the same direction.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
What people in Cassia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cassia County had 12,609 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 48°. About 12 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Malta weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cassia County
- McCain Foods BurleyNationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing653
- Cassia County Joint DistrictSchool district528FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Cassia Regional HospitalCritical access hospital273FTE
- Dot Transportation, Inc. Burley, IdahoBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance259
- High Desert MilkDry milk manufacturing200
- SuntadoBeverages, milk based, manufacturing168
- Gibby GroupAg serveces150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,945 people in all across the county; Albion has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albion’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Cassia County and the Burley, ID metro.
Albion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albion$309,663
- 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.
Zip codes with a Albion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.