Franklin, Idaho.
Typical home $406,904 (+3.4% in a year). Logan, UT-ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,199 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,420 +3%
- $393,484$406,904 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,799 +8%
- $378,105$406,904 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.
- Franklin$2,136
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Franklin, ID rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Franklin, Franklin County, Idaho
Franklin is a city of 1,025 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $81,830 a year and half less, against $71,950 across Franklin County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Franklin is a small city in southeastern Idaho, with a young population and a median age well below what is typical for the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot days; precipitation is fairly light over the year, much of it falling as snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are the Preston Joint District, Franklin County Medical Center and Ipex USA. Unemployment across the county has risen slightly from a year earlier, while the number of jobs has grown a little, and most people have a fairly short commute.
Things to do. Bear Lake, a lake, is a longer drive away and is the best known of the nearby places for water and time outdoors. Beaver Mountain, a ski area, is also a longer drive away and suits the snowy winters. Minnetonka Cave, a tourist attraction, is another longer drive away for a day out.
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- 24%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 4,167 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 54°. About 52 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Preston weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Preston Joint DistrictSchool district207FTE
- Franklin County Medical CenterCritical access hospital204FTE
- Stokes Market & True Value HardwareGrocery stores160
- Ipex USAPvc pipe manufacturing114
- West Side Joint DistrictSchool district88FTE
- Oakdell Farms Franklin IdahoChicken egg production71
- VMC Oakdell Farms FranklinChicken egg production58
- Valley Implement & MotorUtility trailer dealers54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 491 people in all across the county; Franklin 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Franklin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Franklin County and the Logan, UT-ID metro.
Franklin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Franklin$406,904
- 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.
- Franklin9
Zip codes with a Franklin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Franklin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.