New Meadows, Idaho.
Typical home $620,015 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,006 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,710 +3%
- $600,305$620,015 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,428 +15%
- $540,587$620,015 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.
- New Meadows$3,254
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in New Meadows, ID rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Meadows, Adams County, Idaho
New Meadows is a city of 517 people in Adams County. Half its households earn more than $78,594 a year and half less, against $61,808 across Adams County. Unemployment in Adams County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adams County work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Meadows is a very small city in Adams County, Idaho, with fewer residents than most towns that carry a city's name. Households here earn more than across the county as a whole, and homes are valued well above what most of the county's small mountain communities would suggest. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month; the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Adams County, the largest workplaces include the Forest Service, the Council school district and OrePac Building Products, a lumber maker. Jobs across the county slipped a little in the most recent year, and a small number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Payette National Forest, a large protected area, and Payette Lake are both a short drive away, and Brundage Mountain, a ski area, is close as well. For a longer outing, Lake Cascade, a reservoir, and Ponderosa State Park are a longer drive away.
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What people in Adams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 1,007 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 43°. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Meadows Rs weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture66
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture45
- Council DistrictSchool district34FTE
- OrePac Building ProductsHardwood dimension lumber and stock, resawing purchased lumber29
- Meadows Valley DistrictSchool district25FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 29 people in all across the county; New Meadows has two 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 weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Meadows’ 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 Adams County.
New Meadows home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Meadows$620,015
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 New Meadows listings — 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.
- New Meadows19.42%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- New Meadows24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a New Meadows address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Meadows — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.