Horseshoe Bend, Idaho.
Typical home $517,471 (+2.2% in a year). Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,649 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,341 +2%
- $506,130$517,471 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,930 +11%
- $466,541$517,471 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.
- Horseshoe Bend$2,716
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Horseshoe Bend, ID rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Horseshoe Bend, Boise County, Idaho
Horseshoe Bend is a city of 715 people in Boise County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Boise County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boise County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Horseshoe Bend is a very small city, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a four-year degree is less common than across much of the country. Typical home values are high, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line, so the town mixes longtime owners with households that have a harder time making ends meet. Boise County's household incomes run somewhat below those of many Idaho counties, and the unemployment rate there has been close to what it was a year earlier.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and professional and business services. Across Boise County, the largest workplaces include the Forest Service, the Basin School District and Barreto Manufacturing. The county had slightly more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Chief Eagle Eye Creek is a river for fishing or a walk along the bank, and Montour Wildlife Management Area is a protected area for watching wildlife. A longer drive brings you to Bogus Basin, a ski area, which suits the town's snowy winters. Winters here are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm.
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- 338households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
What people in Boise County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boise County had 1,831 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 58°. About 57 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boise North weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boise County
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture81
- Basin School DistrictSchool district49FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture47
- Barreto ManufacturingAttachments, powered lawn and garden equipment, manufacturing41
- Garden Valley DistrictSchool district39FTE
- Horseshoe Bend School DistrictSchool district39FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 41 people in all across the county; Horseshoe Bend has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Horseshoe Bend’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 Boise County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Horseshoe Bend home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Horseshoe Bend$517,471
- 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.
- Horseshoe Bend16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Horseshoe Bend address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Horseshoe Bend — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.