Grand View, Idaho.
Typical home $445,042 (+3.9% in a year). Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,448 (+163%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,787 +4%
- $428,255$445,042 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,201 +14%
- $391,840$445,042 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.
- Grand View$2,336
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Grand View, ID rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grand View, Owyhee County, Idaho
Grand View is a city of 440 people in Owyhee County. Unemployment in Owyhee County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Owyhee County work in construction, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grand View is a very small city in Owyhee County, Idaho, in dry country in the southwestern part of the state. Homes here cost more than the county's typical household income might suggest, and very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in December, summers get hot, and very little rain or snow falls across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Owyhee County, the largest workplaces include JR Simplot Co, which raises beef cattle, and the Homedale Joint District and Marsing Joint District school districts. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though there are fewer jobs than there were the year before, and very few people here work from home.
Things to do. The land around Grand View is mostly open and wild, and the water is close by. The Bruneau River and C. J. Strike Reservoir are both a short drive away, and the C.J. Strike Wildlife Management Area is just as near. A longer drive brings you to Bruneau Dunes State Park, a protected area.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Owyhee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Owyhee County had 3,425 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 58°. About 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand View Northwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Owyhee County
- Marsing Agricultural Labor Sponsorship CommitteeFarm labor contractors471
- JR Simplot CoBeef cattle ranching & farming, including feedlots350
- Reynolds Creek Calf RanchBeef cattle feedlots160
- Homedale Joint DistrictSchool district134FTE
- Marsing Joint DistrictSchool district107FTE
- Owyhee Health & RehabSkilled nursing facilities100
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores75
- Boise Cascade CoEngineered wood member except truss manufacturing74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,465 people in all across the county; Grand View has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grand View’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Owyhee County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Grand View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grand View$445,042
- 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.
- Grand View6
Zip codes with a Grand View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grand View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.