Fort Hall, Idaho.
Typical home $395,759 (+0.0% in a year). Pocatello, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,233 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $103 +0%
- $395,656$395,759 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,199 +23%
- $322,561$395,759 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.
- Fort Hall$2,077
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Fort Hall, ID rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Hall, Bannock County, Idaho
Fort Hall, in Bannock County, had 3,195 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Bannock County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Hall is a community where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the population is younger than in many American towns. Poverty is more common here than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers warm, and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, government and shops. Across Bannock County, some of the biggest employers are Idaho State University, Portneuf Medical Center and the Pocatello school district. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Blackfoot River is a short drive away, and the old fort that gives the community its name is close by as well. A longer drive brings you to the Portneuf River and the Idaho Potato Museum. Pebble Creek ski area is also a longer drive, and suits the snowy winters.
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- 871households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bannock County had 38,273 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 51°. About 28 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Hall Nne weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bannock County
- Idaho State UniversityUniversity or college1,983
- Portneuf Medical Center1,554
- Pocatello DistrictSchool district1,143FTE
- Portneuf Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,089FTE
- Virgina Transformers821
- Amy's KitchenChop suey, frozen, manufacturing798
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters402
- LA SemiconductorSemiconductor devices manufacturing358
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 61 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,744 people in all across the county; Fort Hall has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Fort HallRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of Fort HallRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Hall’s census tracts, 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 Bannock County and the Pocatello, ID metro.
Fort Hall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Hall$395,759
- 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 Fort Hall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Hall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.