Paris, Idaho.
Typical home $328,087 (-3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,074 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,165 -4%
- $341,252$328,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,967 +22%
- $269,121$328,087 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.
- Paris$1,722
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Paris, ID fell 3.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paris, Bear Lake County, Idaho
Paris is a city of 541 people in Bear Lake County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Bear Lake County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bear Lake County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paris is a very small city in Bear Lake County, in the southeast corner of Idaho. Nearly everyone in town owns the home they live in, and few households fall below the poverty line. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in farming, forestry and mining, with manufacturing close behind. Across Bear Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are the Bear Lake County District, Bear Lake Memorial Hospital and Broulims Supermarkets. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Bear Lake itself, and to Beaver Mountain, a ski area that suits the snowy winters. Minnetonka Cave, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive away.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Bear Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bear Lake County had 2,013 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 46°. About 91 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bern weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bear Lake County
- Bear Lake County DistrictSchool district136FTE
- Bear Lake Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital132FTE
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries69
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 69 people in all across the county; Paris has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paris’ 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 Bear Lake County.
Paris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paris$328,087
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Paris6
Zip codes with a Paris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.