Twin Falls, Idaho.
Typical home $370,431 (+3.2% in a year), asking rent $1,565 (+3.6%). Twin Falls, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,140 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,489 +3%
- $358,942$370,431 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,387 +16%
- $318,044$370,431 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.
- Twin Falls$1,944
- 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 Twin Falls, ID rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Twin Falls, ID rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Twin Falls runs $964/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,047 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,530 a month against $1,565 rent: a $1,944 mortgage payment, plus $189 property tax and $397 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Twin Falls
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,530
- Renting$1,565
- Mortgage only$1,944
Property tax · $189/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Twin Falls County, ID
Insurance & upkeep · $397/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho
Twin Falls is a city of 51,807 people in Twin Falls County. Half its households earn more than $61,205 a year and half less, against $67,409 across Twin Falls County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Twin Falls was 3.6% in August 2026, and Twin Falls County had 2.1% 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. Twin Falls is a city in southern Idaho and the largest community in its county. Its residents are younger than in many American towns, and most households own their homes. Incomes run below the county's overall, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is common nationally. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the climate is dry, with little rain or melted snow over the course of a year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in the city are St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, the Twin Falls school district and the College of Southern Idaho. Getting to work is quick for most people, and few work from home.
Things to do. Waterfalls are the draw here: Shoshone Falls and the falls that give the city its name are both a short drive away, and Pillar Falls lies in or beside town. The Herrett Center for Arts and Science, a museum, is also in or beside town. For a longer outing, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 20,828households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Twin Falls County had 42,703 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 58°. About 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Twin Falls-kmvt weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Twin Falls
- St Lukes Magic Valley REG MED CTRGeneral hospital1,913FTE
- Twin Falls DistrictSchool district905FTE
- College of Southern IdahoUniversity or college702
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing634
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters444
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer266
- Serenity Transitional CareSkilled nursing233
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,052 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of Twin FallsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Twin FallsRelatively 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 Twin Falls’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Twin Falls County and the Twin Falls, ID metro.
Twin Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Twin Falls$370,431
- 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 Twin Falls listings, and the typical home goes pending in 38 days — 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.
- Twin Falls30.81%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Twin Falls38
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Twin Falls277
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Twin Falls68
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Twin Falls$358,199
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Twin Falls98.51%
Zip codes with a Twin Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Twin Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.