Wilder, Idaho.
Typical home $547,678 (+5.9% in a year). Boise City, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,805 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,326 +6%
- $517,352$547,678 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,148 +12%
- $490,530$547,678 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.
- Wilder$2,875
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Wilder, ID rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilder, Canyon County, Idaho
Wilder is a city of 1,597 people in Canyon County. Half its households earn more than $55,117 a year and half less, against $76,488 across Canyon County. 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 schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilder is a small city in Canyon County, Idaho, with a young population compared with much of the country. Household incomes here run below the county's, while typical home values are high next to what those incomes would suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, manufacturing and shops also employing a good number. In Wilder itself, the largest workplaces include the Wilder District school district and Jacksons Food Stores. The typical commute is moderate, and few people work from home. Across Canyon County, jobs grew over the past year and unemployment has held steady.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor choices are on the list of places a longer drive away. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area set aside for wildlife, and Jump Creek Falls is a waterfall. Fort Boise, a historic fort, is also a longer drive away. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the year is quite dry, so many of these outings suit the milder seasons.
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- 659households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%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 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 59°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Homedale Southeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilder
- Wilder DistrictSchool district77FTE
- Canyon-owyhee School Service Agency (cossa)School district25FTE
- Jacksons Food StoresRetail22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 22 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
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Wilder’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 Canyon County and the Boise City, ID metro.
Wilder home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilder$547,678
- 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 Wilder 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wilder19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wilder address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilder — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.