Shelley, Idaho.
Typical home $434,907 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $952 . Blackfoot, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,406 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,116 +3%
- $422,791$434,907 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,203 +16%
- $373,704$434,907 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.
- Shelley$2,283
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Shelley, ID rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shelley, Bingham County, Idaho
Shelley is a city of 4,785 people in Bingham County. Half its households earn more than $77,563 a year and half less, against $77,878 across Bingham County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Bingham County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shelley is a small city in Bingham County with a young population, with residents who are younger on average than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are close to the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm days, and the year is fairly dry, with a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Shelley are Idaho Smokehouse Partners, the Shelley Joint District school district and Basic American Foods, which dehydrates potato products. A typical commute is fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Tautphaus Park offers green space, and the Museum of Idaho is a place to spend an afternoon indoors. Farther afield, a longer drive leads to Ririe Reservoir, a good spot for time by the water, and to the Henrys Fork river.
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- 1,668households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bingham County had 16,585 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 49°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Idaho Falls Fanning Field weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelley
- Idaho Smokehouse PartnersBoxed meat produced from purchased carcasses388
- Shelley Joint DistrictSchool district228FTE
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries75
- Basic American FoodsPotato products dehydrating33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 496 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat 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 Shelley’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 Bingham County and the Blackfoot, ID metro.
Shelley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shelley$434,907
- 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 4 Shelley 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.
- Shelley27.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shelley94
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shelley22
Zip codes with a Shelley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shelley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.