Rupert, Idaho.
Typical home $323,252 (+1.3% in a year). Burley, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,033 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,177 +1%
- $319,074$323,252 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,975 +26%
- $256,277$323,252 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.
- Rupert$1,697
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Rupert, ID rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Rupert, Minidoka County, Idaho
Rupert is a city of 6,082 people in Minidoka County. Half its households earn more than $54,741 a year and half less, against $70,377 across Minidoka County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Minidoka County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rupert is a small city in Minidoka County, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Incomes run below the county's as a whole, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are warm, and the year brings little rain or melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming. Among the largest workplaces in Rupert are Idahoan Foods, a potato-dehydrating plant, Brewster Cheese Company, and Minidoka Memorial Hospital. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is about where it was a year ago. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Goose Creek, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Walcott, a reservoir, and Lake Walcott State Park beside it. Also a longer drive away is the Minidoka National Historic Site, a protected area.
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- 2,188households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Minidoka County had 9,227 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 55°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paul 1ENE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rupert
- Minidoka County Joint DistrictSchool district457FTE
- Minidoka Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital240FTE
- Idahoan Foods, LLC - Rupert PlantDehydrating potato products68
- Brewster Cheese CompanyCheese manufacturing63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 131 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Rupert’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 Minidoka County and the Burley, ID metro.
Rupert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rupert$323,252
- 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 Rupert 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.
- Rupert29.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rupert41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rupert11
Zip codes with a Rupert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rupert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.