Geographic-scope notice: Boise is not a separately-incorporated place in the U.S. Census Bureau's Place geography – it is either a neighborhood within a larger municipality (in Ada County) or a town-class subdivision in a state where the Census reports demographics at the town rather than place level. To avoid presenting county-level aggregates as city-level data, this page does not show synthetic Census or health figures for Boise. For the surrounding county aggregates, see the Idaho state directory.
Area profile (no Census Place)
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Boise, ID (in Ada County) is not a Census Place. Areazine keeps this area page for alerts and navigation, without a place-level population or demographic snapshot.
Ada County, Idaho. Boise has no Census Place boundary in the ACS geography Areazine uses, so this page does not invent a population or income figure for the named area. Use the state directory for surrounding county aggregates and the alerts below when the area appears in a federal feed.
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The quick read
Reading Boise, ID beyond the headline numbers
Boise sits inside Ada County, Idaho, at roughly 43.61°N, -116.20°W. The Census Bureau does not publish a Place-level population for Boise, so Areazine does not invent one; county aggregates live on the Idaho state directory.
6 hospitals in/around Boise, 4.3/5 avg rating, 3 with an ER. Climate: 53.2°F annual average, 11.5" precipitation.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Boise from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
Hospital Access 6 total
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 20241.6% below national average
Metro area: Boise City, ID (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-level55 flood insurance claims have been filed in Ada County since 2016, with $307K paid out by the NFIP.
Most claims in this county are not tied to a single named storm or hurricane in the NFIP record.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Boise?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Boise right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet ID-BOISE · Boise
Boise: 1 tagged alert; lead category NWS weather alert.
- VOL-TRACE 1 on record
- WX-LED 100% weather
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston
Tagged alert mix: Boise
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
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Weather Alerts
1
What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Boise.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Boise; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Idaho state hubs · Methodology
Other cities with a matching alert count 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
In the Area 8
Turning this into a research checklist
Use this page for area alerts and navigation, not as a Census Place demographic report for Boise.
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ACS geography has no Census Place entry for Boise. Rather than invent a place-level population or income number, Areazine points to county aggregates and peer Places on the state and cities directories.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Ada County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. Boise is not a Census Place; this page does not invent place-level population or demographics. County aggregates and peer Places are linked from the state and cities directories. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.