City safety & data profile
Mountain HomeID
Mountain Home, ID is a 14K-resident city in Elmore County with a median household income of $63,125.
Elmore County, Idaho. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Mountain Home, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Mountain Home has a population larger than 22% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $309,400, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 14K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 23%
- By size
- $63,125
- Median income (place)
- $309,400
- Median home (place)
- 11.4%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Mountain Home
Mountain Home posts a median household income higher than 27% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Mountain Home area.
- Bottom 28%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Mountain Home
Composite score · Mountain Home, ID
42/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Compare against every tracked city: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Mountain Home income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$63,125 Bottom 27% higher than 27% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in ID
Population among 21 ID places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Meridian
Meridian, ID
90,739 residents
- Nampa
Nampa, ID
89,839 residents
- Idaho Falls
Idaho Falls, ID
59,184 residents
- Pocatello
Pocatello, ID
54,441 residents
- Caldwell
Caldwell, ID
51,686 residents
- Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene, ID
49,122 residents
- Twin Falls
Twin Falls, ID
47,468 residents
- Lewiston 32,544
Lewiston, ID
32,544 residents
- Post Falls 30,453
Post Falls, ID
30,453 residents
- Rexburg 27,663
Rexburg, ID
27,663 residents
What this shows Meridian is the largest ID city on this list; Eagle leads median income.
Top earners by city in ID
Median household income across 21 tracked ID places. Hover a bar for its population rank.
- Eagle
Eagle, ID
$122,894 median
- Meridian
Meridian, ID
$100,795 median
- Kuna
Kuna, ID
$96,219 median
- Ammon
Ammon, ID
$86,121 median
- Chubbuck
Chubbuck, ID
$82,977 median
- Hayden
Hayden, ID
$82,958 median
- Post Falls
Post Falls, ID
$82,183 median
- Nampa
Nampa, ID
$74,279 median
- Idaho Falls
Idaho Falls, ID
$73,110 median
- Caldwell
Caldwell, ID
$73,058 median
What this shows Income honors go to Eagle here -- by headcount, that title belongs to Meridian.
The quick read
Reading Mountain Home, ID beyond the headline numbers
Mountain Home sits inside Elmore County, Idaho, at roughly 43.13°N, -115.69°W. Population 13,730, $63,125 median household income. Median home value $309,400, median rent $1,155. Poverty rate 11.4%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Mountain Home, 5/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER. Climate: 52.3°F annual average.
Mountain Home's median age is 31.7 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Only 3.6% of Mountain Home workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Among the CDC measures on this page, lack of health insurance departs furthest from its peer median: 13.7% in Mountain Home, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
22% of Mountain Home adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
A median home in Mountain Home runs about 4.9 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
Public transit carries 0% of Mountain Home workers, a smaller share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Median rent in Mountain Home, ID runs $1,155/month, below the midpoint for reporting cities.
Poverty in Mountain Home, ID stands at 11.4%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
Unemployment in Mountain Home sits at 4.9%, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Mountain Home 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.
A Decade of Change 2013–2024
County-level trend (Elmore County): Mountain Home's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
The clearest outlier in Mountain Home's numbers is median household income: $63,125, which is 29% below what's typical across the tracked-city set. A second figure worth noting: median rent at $1,155/mo, 25% below the tracked-city average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 11.4% -8% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 4.9% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 22% |
| Work From Home | 3.6% |
| Public Transit | 0% |
By the Numbers
Health at a Glance 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Local Hospitals 1 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 NormalsNFIP Flood Claim History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelElmore County has recorded 7 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $46K in payouts since 2016.
No single named event dominates this county's claim history: most are individual, unnamed flood losses.
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 Mountain Home?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Mountain Home right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet ID-MOUNTAIN-HOME-ID · Mountain Home
Mountain Home: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Mountain Home; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Idaho state hubs · Methodology
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Cities nationwide with a comparable poverty or income figure 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Mountain Home, both outside Idaho so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside ID (11.4% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside ID ($63,125 here).
Compare Mountain Home with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Mountain Home's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Mountain Home area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Mountain Home against Idaho peers on any ranking lens. Explore Idaho
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
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 (Elmore 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. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.