Parma, Idaho.
Typical home $510,557 (+4.8% in a year). Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,684 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,477 +5%
- $487,080$510,557 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,362 +9%
- $468,195$510,557 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.
- Parma$2,680
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Parma, ID rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parma, Canyon County, Idaho
Parma is a city of 2,096 people in Canyon County. Half its households earn more than $49,231 a year and half less, against $76,488 across Canyon County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% 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 farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parma is a small city in Canyon County, in the farm country of western Idaho. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though incomes run well below the county's and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January days staying close to freezing and a little snow, and summers turn hot, with July the warmest month, and the year overall is dry.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in the building trades, in manufacturing, and in schools, hospitals and social care. The largest workplaces in Parma are the Parma District school district, JC Watson Packing Co, which sorts, grades and packs vegetables, and Parma Company, which makes farm tractors and attachments. Unemployment across Canyon County has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute is fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Fort Boise, a historic fort, is a short drive away, as is the Fort Boise Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. A longer drive brings you to the Payette River, and Lake Owyhee State Park offers a state park setting farther out.
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- 724households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%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 37° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 57°. About 12 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parma Experiment Station weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Parma
- Parma DistrictSchool district129FTE
- JC Watson Packing CoVegetable sorting, grading, and packing42
- Parma CompanyTractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 66 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 weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Parma’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Canyon County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Parma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parma$510,557
- 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 Parma 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.
- Parma29.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parma22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Parma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.