Glenns Ferry, Idaho.
Typical home $256,922 (-5.8% in a year). Mountain Home, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$791 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,759 -6%
- $272,682$256,922 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,213 +9%
- $236,709$256,922 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.
- Glenns Ferry$1,349
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Glenns Ferry, ID fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glenns Ferry, Elmore County, Idaho
Glenns Ferry is a city of 1,282 people in Elmore County. Half its households earn more than $51,840 a year and half less, against $65,359 across Elmore County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Elmore County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Elmore 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glenns Ferry is a small city in Elmore County, Idaho, and a quiet one. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Homes cost a good deal less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with highs that stay well above freezing in the afternoon but nights that drop below it, and summers get very hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a dry year overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Elmore County, the largest workplaces include Marathon Cheese Corporation, the Mountain Home school district and Walmart. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is unchanged from a year earlier. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, a typical commute is a fairly short drive, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Three Island Crossing State Park sits in or beside town, a protected area tied to the history of travelers crossing the river. The Gorby Opera Theater is also in or beside town and is the place to go for a show. For a longer drive, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is a protected area known for its fossils, and Sailor Creek is a river a short drive away.
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- 517households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Elmore County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elmore County had 7,522 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 99° and lows near 59°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenns Ferry weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elmore County
- Marathon Cheese Corporation Mt. HomeCheese, natural, manufacturing532
- Mountain Home DistrictSchool district344FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- St. Lukes Elmore Medical CenterCritical access hospital183FTE
- PKL ServicesAircraft maintenance and repair services150
- Lam Research Corp Boise Field OfficeSemiconductor making machinery manufacturing108
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores94
- Phoenix IndustrialSubstation and switching station, power transmission line, construction82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,898 people in all across the county; Glenns Ferry 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glenns Ferry’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 Elmore County and the Mountain Home, ID metro.
Glenns Ferry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glenns Ferry$256,922
- 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.
- Glenns Ferry7
Zip codes with a Glenns Ferry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glenns Ferry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.