Kuna, Idaho.
Typical home $460,394 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $2,346 (+6.6%). Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,326 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,473 +1%
- $455,921$460,394 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,178 -2%
- $470,571$460,394 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.
- Kuna$2,416
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kuna, ID rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Kuna, ID rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Kuna runs $762/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,149 in Oct 2022.
That is $3,108 a month against $2,346 rent: a $2,416 mortgage payment, plus $199 property tax and $493 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Kuna
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,108
- Renting$2,346
- Mortgage only$2,416
Property tax · $199/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Ada County, ID
Insurance & upkeep · $493/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Kuna, Ada County, Idaho
Kuna is a city of 24,011 people in Ada County. Half its households earn more than $96,219 a year and half less, against $91,502 across Ada County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Kuna was 3.5% in August 2026, and Ada County had 2.5% 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. Kuna is a young, mostly owner-occupied city in Ada County, where residents are younger than in much of the country and the large majority of households own the home they live in. Household incomes sit a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, while the year as a whole stays fairly dry.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Kuna are the Kuna Joint District, Albertsons and BestLife Health Care. Unemployment is low and little changed from a year earlier, a typical commute is a fairly long one, and some people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Warhawk Air Museum covers aviation history, Idaho Aquarium is a zoo and aquarium, and Meridian Speedway is a race track. Farther afield, Bogus Basin is a ski area, and Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. Each of the farther places is a longer drive.
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- 9,203households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ada County had 295,234 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boise Air Terminal weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kuna
- Kuna Joint DistrictSchool district578FTE
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores119
- BestLife Health CareAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities74
- ABM IndustriesService to buildings and dwellings31
- KunaMail and parcel delivery30
- Falcon Ridge Public Charter SchoolSchool district27FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 254 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kuna’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 Ada County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Kuna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kuna$460,394
- 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 3 Kuna listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 days — 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.
- Kuna32.22%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Kuna18
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kuna124
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kuna49
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Kuna$461,642
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Kuna99.38%
Zip codes with a Kuna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kuna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.