Buhl, Idaho.
Typical home $377,018 (+4.5% in a year). Twin Falls, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,222 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,297 +5%
- $360,721$377,018 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,021 +22%
- $307,997$377,018 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.
- Buhl$1,979
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Buhl, ID rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buhl, Twin Falls County, Idaho
Buhl is a city of 4,558 people in Twin Falls County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Twin Falls County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buhl is a small city in Twin Falls County, and its people are younger than the typical American community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm and dry, with July the warmest and only a little rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with restaurants, hotels and shops also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Buhl are the Buhl Joint District, which runs the schools, Cascades at Desert View, a skilled nursing facility, and Titan Buhl Operator, an assisted-living facility. The commute is moderate for most workers, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Niagara Springs Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Shoshone Falls, a waterfall on the Snake River, and to Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, a protected area known for its ancient fossils.
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- 1,816households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Twin Falls County had 42,703 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 60°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buhl #2 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buhl
- Buhl Joint DistrictSchool district120FTE
- Cascades at Desert ViewSkilled nursing facilities63
- Titan Buhl OperatorAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 107 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buhl’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Twin Falls County and the Twin Falls, ID metro.
Buhl home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buhl$377,018
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Buhl listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Buhl24.64%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buhl54
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buhl13
Zip codes with a Buhl address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buhl — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.