Bruneau, Idaho.
Typical home $529,590 (+7.8% in a year). Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,844 (+197%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,231 +8%
- $491,359$529,590 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $112,442 +27%
- $417,148$529,590 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.
- Bruneau$2,780
- 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 Bruneau, ID rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bruneau, Owyhee County, Idaho
Bruneau, in Owyhee County, had 121 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Owyhee County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Owyhee County work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bruneau is a very small community in Owyhee County, in the dry high-desert country of southwest Idaho. Homes here are worth a good deal more than the county's incomes would suggest, and across Owyhee County the job market has been shrinking a little, with unemployment staying fairly low. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with very little rain or snow through the year.
Work. People who live in Bruneau work mostly in the building trades, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Owyhee County, some of the largest workplaces are JR Simplot Co, which raises beef cattle, along with Reynolds Creek Calf Ranch and the Homedale Joint District school district.
Things to do. A short drive away is Bruneau Dunes State Park, a protected area, and the Bruneau River, a river that cuts through the surrounding desert. A longer drive brings you to C. J. Strike Reservoir, a reservoir that suits an afternoon by the water.
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What people in Owyhee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Owyhee County had 3,425 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 61°. About 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bruneau weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Owyhee County
- Marsing Agricultural Labor Sponsorship CommitteeFarm labor contractors471
- JR Simplot CoBeef cattle ranching & farming, including feedlots350
- Reynolds Creek Calf RanchBeef cattle feedlots160
- Homedale Joint DistrictSchool district134FTE
- Marsing Joint DistrictSchool district107FTE
- Owyhee Health & RehabSkilled nursing facilities100
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores75
- Boise Cascade CoEngineered wood member except truss manufacturing74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,465 people in all across the county; Bruneau has none of its own. School districts come 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bruneau’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Owyhee County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Bruneau home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bruneau$529,590
- 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 Bruneau address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bruneau — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.