Council, Idaho.
Typical home $401,465 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,322 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,446 +2%
- $393,019$401,465 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,931 +17%
- $344,534$401,465 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.
- Council$2,107
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Council, ID rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Council, Adams County, Idaho
Council is a city of 867 people in Adams County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Adams County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adams County work in shops, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Council is a small city, and most homes in it are lived in by their owners, a pattern that suggests a settled community where neighbors know one another. Typical home values here are well above what the county's modest incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while summers turn hot by July. A fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Adams County, the largest workplaces include the Forest Service, the Council School District and OrePac Building Products, a lumber maker. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has lost some jobs over the past year. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across much of the country.
Things to do. Payette National Forest, a large protected area, and Payette Lake are both a longer drive away, and they draw people for hiking, camping and time on the water. Brundage Mountain, a ski area, is also a longer drive away and gives the town a winter outlet on the snow. Lake Cascade, a reservoir, is another longer drive away and suits boating and fishing.
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- 336households
- 14%of adults have a degree
What people in Adams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 1,007 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 57°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Council weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture66
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture45
- Council DistrictSchool district34FTE
- OrePac Building ProductsHardwood dimension lumber and stock, resawing purchased lumber29
- Meadows Valley DistrictSchool district25FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 29 people in all across the county; Council has two of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- WildfireVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Council’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 Adams County.
Council home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Council$401,465
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Council 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.
- Council25.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Council32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Council5
Zip codes with a Council address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Council — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.