King Hill, Idaho.
Typical home $411,405 (+1.5% in a year). Mountain Home, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,285 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,213 +2%
- $405,192$411,405 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,418 +10%
- $372,987$411,405 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.
- King Hill$2,159
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in King Hill, ID rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in King Hill, Elmore County, Idaho
The Census does not count King Hill on its own, so the figures here are Elmore County's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,359 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Elmore County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Elmore County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. King Hill is a small town in south-central Idaho, within Elmore County. Winters here are cold and summers are hot, with the warmest months bringing heat that makes afternoons uncomfortable for many people. Rain and melted snow are light across the year.
Work. Across Elmore County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment has held steady over the past year, while the number of jobs has eased very slightly. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Three Island Crossing State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and the Gorby Opera Theater, a theatre, is also a short drive off. Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, another protected area, lies a longer drive away.
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- 11,067households
- 33.1median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Elmore County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elmore County had 7,522 jobs in 2025, 0.1% 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elmore County
- Marathon Cheese Corporation Mt. HomeCheese, natural, manufacturing532
- Mountain Home DistrictSchool district344FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- St. Lukes Elmore Medical CenterCritical access hospital183FTE
- PKL ServicesAircraft maintenance and repair services150
- Lam Research Corp Boise Field OfficeSemiconductor making machinery manufacturing108
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores94
- Phoenix IndustrialSubstation and switching station, power transmission line, construction82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,898 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Elmore County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Elmore County and the Mountain Home, ID metro.
King Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- King Hill$411,405
- 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 King Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls King Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.