Declo, Idaho.
Typical home $461,908 (+6.5% in a year). Burley, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,468 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,229 +7%
- $433,679$461,908 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,502 +26%
- $366,406$461,908 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.
- Declo$2,424
- 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 Declo, ID rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Declo, Cassia County, Idaho
Declo is a city of 338 people in Cassia County. Unemployment in Cassia County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cassia County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Declo is a very small city in Cassia County, Idaho, and homes here are priced well above what most households in the county earn in a year. Winters are cold, with December highs that stay close to freezing and lows well below it, and summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow add up to very little over a year, so this is dry country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining close behind. Across Cassia County, some of the largest workplaces are McCain Foods Burley, the Cassia County Joint District school district, and Cassia Regional Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Goose Creek is a river a short drive away, and it is the closest water to the town. A longer drive brings you to Lake Walcott, a reservoir with a state park beside it, and to Castle Rocks State Park, a protected area. Pomerelle, a ski area, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Cassia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cassia County had 12,609 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 55°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burley Municipal Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cassia County
- McCain Foods BurleyNationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing653
- Cassia County Joint DistrictSchool district528FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Cassia Regional HospitalCritical access hospital273FTE
- Dot Transportation, Inc. Burley, IdahoBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance259
- High Desert MilkDry milk manufacturing200
- SuntadoBeverages, milk based, manufacturing168
- Gibby GroupAg serveces150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,945 people in all across the county; Declo has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Declo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Cassia County and the Burley, ID metro.
Declo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Declo$461,908
- 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 Declo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Declo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.