Bancroft, Idaho.
Typical home $357,077 (+6.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$303 (+19%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $21,607 +6%
- $335,470$357,077 since Sep 2025
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.
- Bancroft$1,874
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bancroft, ID rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bancroft, Caribou County, Idaho
Bancroft is a city of 299 people in Caribou County. Unemployment in Caribou County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caribou County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bancroft is a very small city in Caribou County, Idaho, where residents are few and most people are likely to know one another. Very few households fall below the poverty line, and typical home values are well above what the county's household incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Over a year the town gets a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Caribou County, some of the largest workplaces are P4 Production, Itafos Conda and Caribou Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Caribou–Targhee National Forest is the best known of the nearby places, a protected area a longer drive away. Pebble Creek, a ski area, and Zoo Idaho are also a longer drive away. For a day out with a view of wildlife, Portneuf Wildlife Management Area is another protected area a longer drive off.
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- 1%below the poverty line
What people in Caribou County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caribou County had 3,544 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 51°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lava Hot Springs weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caribou County
- P4 ProductionOther basic inorganic chemical manufacturing372
- Itafos CondaAmmonium phosphates manufacturing278
- Caribou Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital142FTE
- Soda Springs Joint DistrictSchool district101FTE
- Bayer Soda Springs69
- Grace Joint DistrictSchool district58FTE
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries57
- North GEM DistrictSchool district25FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 776 people in all across the county; Bancroft has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bancroft’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 Caribou County.
Bancroft home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bancroft$357,077
- 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.
- Bancroft6
Zip codes with a Bancroft address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bancroft — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.