Fish Haven, Idaho.
Typical home $645,061 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,039 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,471 +3%
- $626,590$645,061 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,059 +10%
- $586,002$645,061 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.
- Fish Haven$3,386
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Fish Haven, ID rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fish Haven, Bear Lake County, Idaho
The Census does not count Fish Haven on its own, so the figures here are Bear Lake County's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,260 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 90% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Bear Lake County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bear Lake County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fish Haven is a small town in Bear Lake County, in the southeast corner of Idaho near the Utah border. The county's residents are mostly older working adults, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, with the warmest weather in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest yearly total.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in the building trades. Farming, forestry and mining, and manufacturing also employ people across the county. Unemployment has risen a little over the past year, and jobs have grown only slightly. Relatively few people work from home, and most drive to work.
Things to do. Bear Lake, a lake a short drive away, is one of the best known natural places nearby. Minnetonka Cave, a tourist attraction also a short drive away, is a popular stop for visitors. Beaver Mountain, a ski area a short drive off, is an option for winter visits.
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- 2,278households
- 40.5median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Bear Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bear Lake County had 2,013 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 55°. About 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bear Lake Sp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bear Lake County
- Bear Lake County DistrictSchool district136FTE
- Bear Lake Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital132FTE
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries69
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 69 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bear Lake County, 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 Bear Lake County.
Fish Haven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fish Haven$645,061
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Fish Haven 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.
- Fish Haven19.09%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fish Haven37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fish Haven7
Zip codes with a Fish Haven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fish Haven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fish Haven
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83287 | Fish Haven | 255 | — | $649,782 |
| 83272 | Saint Charles | 219 | — | $543,050 |