Middleton, Idaho.
Typical home $507,132 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,371 . Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,521 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,806 +2%
- $498,326$507,132 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,540 +1%
- $503,592$507,132 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.
- Middleton$2,662
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Middleton, ID rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middleton, Canyon County, Idaho
Middleton is a city of 9,425 people in Canyon County. Half its households earn more than $89,013 a year and half less, against $76,488 across Canyon County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Canyon County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middleton is a small city in Canyon County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and far more households own than rent compared with most places. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Typical home values are high and rents are steep, and the population leans a little younger than the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with snow that comes and goes, summers are hot, 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. A smaller share than in many places hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fair drive, though a good number work from home. Across Canyon County, some of the largest workplaces are Amazon, the College of Western Idaho and the Nampa School District, and unemployment there has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Warhawk Air Museum offers a look at aircraft and aviation history, and Firebird Raceway is a race track for anyone who likes to watch motorsport. Farther afield, Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge is protected land for walking and watching birds, and it takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 3,601households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Canyon County had 90,221 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 57°. About 10 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nampa Sugar Factory weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Canyon County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,966
- College of Western IdahoTwo-year college1,487
- Saint Alphonsus Medical Center, Nampa (Garrity)-SAHS-ID/ORHospitals, general medical and surgical1,246
- Nampa School DistrictSchool district1,242FTE
- Vallivue School DistrictSchool district935FTE
- St. Alphonsus Medical Center - NampGeneral hospital893FTE
- St. Lukes Nampa Medical CenterGeneral hospital854FTE
- JR Simplot CoFrozen fruit, juice and vegetable manufacturing658
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 195 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 24,833 people in all across the county; Middleton has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middleton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Canyon County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Middleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middleton$507,132
- 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 Middleton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 29 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Middleton37.73%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Middleton29
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Middleton91
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Middleton28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Middleton$516,155
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Middleton99.12%
Zip codes with a Middleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.