Fairfield, Idaho.
Typical home $377,350 (+8.5% in a year). Hailey, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,088 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,460 +8%
- $347,890$377,350 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,515 +8%
- $347,836$377,350 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.
- Fairfield$1,981
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Fairfield, ID rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairfield, Camas County, Idaho
Fairfield is a city of 441 people in Camas County. Unemployment in Camas County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairfield is a very small city in Camas County, Idaho, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest. Moisture is modest through the year, falling as rain and melted snow. Typical home values here run well above what the county's incomes would suggest, and very few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Across Camas County, the largest workplaces are the school district and the Forest Service, so public employment looms large. Unemployment in the county has edged up a little from a year earlier, and the number of jobs there slipped over the past year. Only a small share of people work from home, so most commute to a job or work on site.
Things to do. Soldier Mountain, a ski area, and Mormon Reservoir are both a short drive away, which makes winter skiing and a day by the water easy to manage. A longer drive brings you to Sawtooth National Forest, a large protected area, and to the Big Wood River for time along a river. Together they give the area a strong outdoor character in every season.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 50°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fairfield Rs weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camas County
- Camas County DistrictSchool district28FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture27
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Fairfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Camas County and the Hailey, ID metro.
Fairfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairfield$377,350
- 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.
- Fairfield14
Zip codes with a Fairfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.