Ashton, Idaho.
Typical home $290,085 (+7.6% in a year). Rexburg, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$964 (+173%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,549 +8%
- $269,535$290,085 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,649 +27%
- $228,436$290,085 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.
- Ashton$1,523
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Ashton, ID rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashton, Fremont County, Idaho
Ashton is a city of 949 people in Fremont County. Half its households earn more than $65,428 a year and half less, against $72,683 across Fremont County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Fremont County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fremont County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashton is a small city, and residents are somewhat older than in much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and home values are modest. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in August and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and commutes are short, so most people are close to home within minutes. Across Fremont County, the largest workplaces include the Fremont County Joint District, Sunroc and Broulims Supermarkets.
Things to do. Water is the draw nearby. Upper Mesa Falls and Lower Mesa Falls are waterfalls a short drive away, and Fall River is a river just as close. The Teton River is a longer drive off, for those who want to go further.
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- 491households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Fremont County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fremont County had 3,797 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 48°. About 70 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashton 1N weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fremont County
- Fremont County Joint DistrictSchool district237FTE
- SunrocCommercial building construction228
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries49
- Walters Produce 2.0Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables30
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture29
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 307 people in all across the county; Ashton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashton’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 Fremont County and the Rexburg, ID metro.
Ashton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashton$290,085
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ashton9
Zip codes with a Ashton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashton — 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.