Eden, Idaho.
Typical home $443,502 (+2.6% in a year). Twin Falls, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,268 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,067 +3%
- $432,435$443,502 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,417 +11%
- $400,085$443,502 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.
- Eden$2,328
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Eden, ID rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eden, Jerome County, Idaho
Eden is a city of 393 people in Jerome County. Unemployment in Jerome County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jerome 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eden is a very small city in Jerome County, Idaho, where most of the surrounding land is given over to farming. Homes here are valued well above what the county's modest incomes might suggest, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is low. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot summer afternoons, and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and shops. The commute is a fairly typical one, and few people work from home. Across Jerome County, the largest workplaces include Agropur, which makes cheese, True West Beef, a meat processor, and the Jerome Joint District, the local school district. Unemployment in the county has stayed low and steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Shoshone Falls, a waterfall on the Snake River, is a short drive away, and so is Minidoka National Historic Site, a protected area that preserves a piece of the region's history. Twin Falls, also known for its waterfall, is another short drive. For a longer outing, Wilson Butte Cave is an archaeological site that makes a worthwhile day trip.
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- 120households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Jerome County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jerome County had 12,328 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 56°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hazelton weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jerome County
- True West BeefAnimal slaughtering and processing545
- AgropurCheese, natural, manufacturing470
- Jerome Joint DistrictSchool district438FTE
- Spears ManufacturingPvc pipe manufacturing320
- Watkins DistributingBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers318
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Double A DairyDairy226
- Rite Stuff FoodsFruit juice concentrates, frozen, manufacturing208
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,442 people in all across the county; Eden 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eden’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 Jerome County and the Twin Falls, ID metro.
Eden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eden$443,502
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Eden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.