Heyburn, Idaho.
Typical home $323,361 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,525 . Burley, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,013 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,056 +2%
- $317,305$323,361 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,910 +22%
- $265,452$323,361 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.
- Heyburn$1,697
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Heyburn, ID rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Heyburn, Minidoka County, Idaho
Heyburn is a city of 3,700 people in Minidoka County. Half its households earn more than $64,179 a year and half less, against $70,377 across Minidoka County. Unemployment in Minidoka County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Heyburn is a small city in Minidoka County, in the farm country of southern Idaho. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes cost a good deal more than incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July, while the year brings little rain or melted snow.
Work. Most residents work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in government. Gem State Processing, which dehydrates potato products, and United Electric Co-op, which distributes electric power, are among the largest workplaces in Heyburn. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Goose Creek runs in or beside town, a river to walk beside close to home. A longer drive away are Lake Walcott, a reservoir, and Minidoka National Historic Site, a protected area. Castle Rocks State Park is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,399households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 15 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Minidoka County had 9,227 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 55°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burley Municipal Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Heyburn
- Gem State ProcessingDehydrating potato products195
- Southwind by WilcoxPotato farming, field and seed potato production32
- United Electric Co-opDistribution of electric power26
- Bureau of ReclamationFederal government · Department of the Interior22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 253 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Heyburn’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 Minidoka County and the Burley, ID metro.
Heyburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Heyburn$323,361
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Heyburn listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Heyburn14.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Heyburn23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Heyburn7
Zip codes with a Heyburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Heyburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.