Hansen, Idaho.
Typical home $341,208 (+4.1% in a year). Twin Falls, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,077 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,573 +4%
- $327,636$341,208 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,487 +19%
- $287,721$341,208 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.
- Hansen$1,791
- 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 Hansen, ID rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hansen, Twin Falls County, Idaho
Hansen is a city of 1,086 people in Twin Falls County. Half its households earn more than $50,083 a year and half less, against $67,409 across Twin Falls County. Unemployment in Twin Falls County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hansen is a small city in Twin Falls County, in the farming country of southern Idaho. Residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and household incomes run below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year is fairly dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Twin Falls County, the largest workplaces include St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, the yogurt maker Chobani and the Twin Falls school district. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is low and close to where it stood a year earlier. A modest number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. Shoshone Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the area, is a short drive away, as is the waterfall at Twin Falls itself. The Herrett Center for Arts and Science, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Minidoka National Historic Site is a protected area a longer drive off.
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- 421households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Twin Falls County had 42,703 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 55°. About 24 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Twin Falls East weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Twin Falls County
- St Lukes Magic Valley REG MED CTRGeneral hospital1,913FTE
- Chobani- Twin FallsYogurt manufacturing1,572
- Twin Falls DistrictSchool district905FTE
- College of Southern IdahoUniversity or college702
- Dry Creek DairiesMilk production, dairy cattle650
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing634
- Amalgamated Sugar Twin FallsBeet sugar refining475
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters444
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,928 people in all across the county; Hansen has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hansen’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 Twin Falls County and the Twin Falls, ID metro.
Hansen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hansen$341,208
- 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.
- Hansen6
Zip codes with a Hansen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hansen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.