Hammett, Idaho.
Typical home $491,948 (+5.3% in a year). Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,625 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,609 +5%
- $467,338$491,948 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,060 +19%
- $412,887$491,948 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.
- Hammett$2,582
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Hammett, ID rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hammett, Owyhee County, Idaho
Hammett, in Owyhee County, had 332 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hammett is a very small community in Owyhee County, Idaho, with Sailor Creek running in or beside town. Homes here cost more than the county's typical household income might suggest, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with highs that stay well above freezing only on the milder days, summers turn hot, and the rain and melted snow add up to little over the year, so the setting is dry.
Work. Many residents work in the building trades, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Owyhee County, the largest workplaces include JR Simplot Co, a beef cattle ranching and feedlot operation, the Homedale Joint District school district, and Owyhee Health & Rehab, a skilled nursing facility. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Three Island Crossing State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the Gorby Opera Theater is a theatre, also a short drive from town. Farther afield, Bruneau Dunes State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. Sailor Creek itself runs in or beside town for anyone who wants to be near the water.
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- 7%below the poverty line
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 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, 7 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; Hammett 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
- 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 Hammett’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 Owyhee County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Hammett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hammett$491,948
- 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 Hammett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hammett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.