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Idaho housing units

832,052

Housing units in Idaho, 2024 (estimate)

+2.1% since 2023 (815,304); +10.8% since 2019 (751,113); +21.5% since 2014 (685,098)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates. Data period 2024. Status: estimate. Published September 11, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.

What the number tells us

Housing units in Idaho: 832,052 in 2024 (an estimate). Total housing units, occupied and vacant (B25001_001E).

Among 44 Idaho counties in 2020–2024, Ada County was highest at 211,440 and Clark County lowest at 456.

The United States figure for 2024 was 146,740,964.

Historical data

Idaho housing units, 2010 to 2024Idaho housing units, 2010 to 2024. Idaho: 668,634 in 2010, 832,052 in 2024.0500k1M201020152020IdahoCount

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates. Published September 11, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.

Data table (14 rows)
PeriodIdaho (count)
2010668,634
2011674,394
2012673,048
2013676,192
2014685,098
2015692,482
2016700,829
2017721,818
2018735,703
2019751,113
2021775,330
2022796,968
2023815,304
2024832,052

By county

44 of 44 counties have a value for 2020–2024. Idaho statewide on the same basis: 795,014. Total housing units, occupied and vacant (B25001_001E).

Idaho housing units by county, 2020–2024Idaho housing units by county, 2020–2024. 44 bars, from Ada (211,440) to Clark (456).Ada211,440Canyon89,135Kootenai80,260Bonneville47,489Twin Falls36,429Bannock36,168Bonner26,867Nez Perce18,578Latah17,591Bingham17,528Blaine15,989Madison15,145Valley12,878Elmore12,271Jefferson10,779Payette10,141Cassia9,096Idaho8,903Fremont8,810Jerome8,810Minidoka8,644Gem7,954Shoshone7,049Teton6,481Gooding6,141Boise5,689Boundary5,615Franklin5,212Owyhee4,869Benewah4,757Lemhi4,676Washington4,629Clearwater4,626Bear Lake4,020Caribou3,157Custer3,137Power2,966Adams2,674Oneida2,101Lincoln1,989Lewis1,826Butte1,336Camas703Clark456

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 5-Year Estimates. Data period 2020-2024. Published January 29, 2026. Retrieved September 8, 2026.

Data table (44 rows)

Source

Organization
U.S. Census Bureau
Dataset
American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates
Geography
Nation and states, including the District of Columbia
Time coverage
2010-2019, 2021-2024
Update frequency
Annual
Published
September 11, 2025
Retrieved
September 8, 2026
Original file
https://api.census.gov/data/{year}/acs/acs1?get=NAME,{variables}&for=state:*|us:*&key=... (2021-2024 instead pulled from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/1YRData/, see caveats)
Methodology
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/methodology.html
License
Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
Our copy
census-acs1, built by scripts/fetch-census-acs.py

Caveats

  • All values are single-year survey estimates and carry margins of error not stored here; small states and small differences between years can be within the margin of error.
  • Dollar figures (economy.median_household_income, housing.median_home_value, housing.median_gross_rent) are in that survey year's dollars and are not adjusted for inflation across years.
  • 1-year estimates are not comparable to 5-year estimates (see census-acs5) for the same geography or metric: different reference periods produce different figures even when nothing changed.
  • There is no standard 2020 ACS 1-year release; the Census Bureau replaced it with experimental estimates because of COVID-19 data collection disruption, and 2020 is omitted here rather than substituted.
  • 2010-2019 were pulled from the Census Data API (api.census.gov), which requires an API key; 2021-2024 were pulled from Census's keyless bulk table-based Summary File (www2.census.gov), which only exists in that convenient one-file-per-table layout from 2021 onward and was already on hand. For 2023 both sources were fetched and every value compared; they agreed exactly.
  • economy.poverty_rate and economy.uninsured_rate are derived from detailed tables B17001 and B27001 rather than the Census subject tables S1701/S2701, because the subject tables' column numbering for these percentages has changed across vintages (confirmed: S2701's 'percent uninsured' column moves from C03 to C05 between 2014 and 2015, and the table does not exist before 2013), while the detailed-table variable numbers used here are stable back to at least 2010.
  • All rate and share metrics (percent unit) are rounded to one decimal place by this puller; level metrics are stored exactly as published.

Data

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