Newdale, Idaho.
Typical home $520,594 (+18.6% in a year). Rexburg, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$458 (+20%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $81,798 +19%
- $438,796$520,594 since Sep 2025
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.
- Newdale$2,732
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Newdale, ID rose 18.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newdale, Madison County, Idaho
Newdale is a city of 337 people in Madison County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newdale is a very small city in Madison County, Idaho, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. The poverty rate is low, and typical home values run high for a town of its size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and daytime highs staying below freezing, while summers turn warm in July. Precipitation is light overall, falling as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Brigham Young University-Idaho, Madison Memorial Hospital and the Madison District school district. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, though unemployment has risen a little since a year ago.
Things to do. Fall River, a river a short drive away, and Canyon Creek, another river close by, are the nearest places to get out on the water. A longer drive brings you to the Teton River and to Upper Mesa Falls, a waterfall. Kelly Canyon, a ski area, is also a longer drive away and suits the cold winters.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 17,803 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 50°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Anthony weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Brigham Young University-IdahoUniversity or college3,399
- Madison DistrictSchool district536FTE
- Madison Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital535FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters481
- Basic American FoodsPotato products dehydrating236
- Sugar-salem Joint DistrictSchool district191FTE
- Dickinson Frozen Foods - Sugar CityVegetables, frozen, manufacturing190
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries153
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,998 people in all across the county; Newdale has none 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newdale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Madison County and the Rexburg, ID metro.
Newdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newdale$520,594
- 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 Newdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.