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
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates. Published September 11, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
Data table (14 rows)
| Period | Idaho (count) |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 668,634 |
| 2011 | 674,394 |
| 2012 | 673,048 |
| 2013 | 676,192 |
| 2014 | 685,098 |
| 2015 | 692,482 |
| 2016 | 700,829 |
| 2017 | 721,818 |
| 2018 | 735,703 |
| 2019 | 751,113 |
| 2021 | 775,330 |
| 2022 | 796,968 |
| 2023 | 815,304 |
| 2024 | 832,052 |
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).
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)
| County | 2020–2024 |
|---|---|
| Ada County | 211,440 |
| Canyon County | 89,135 |
| Kootenai County | 80,260 |
| Bonneville County | 47,489 |
| Twin Falls County | 36,429 |
| Bannock County | 36,168 |
| Bonner County | 26,867 |
| Nez Perce County | 18,578 |
| Latah County | 17,591 |
| Bingham County | 17,528 |
| Blaine County | 15,989 |
| Madison County | 15,145 |
| Valley County | 12,878 |
| Elmore County | 12,271 |
| Jefferson County | 10,779 |
| Payette County | 10,141 |
| Cassia County | 9,096 |
| Idaho County | 8,903 |
| Fremont County | 8,810 |
| Jerome County | 8,810 |
| Minidoka County | 8,644 |
| Gem County | 7,954 |
| Shoshone County | 7,049 |
| Teton County | 6,481 |
| Gooding County | 6,141 |
| Boise County | 5,689 |
| Boundary County | 5,615 |
| Franklin County | 5,212 |
| Owyhee County | 4,869 |
| Benewah County | 4,757 |
| Lemhi County | 4,676 |
| Washington County | 4,629 |
| Clearwater County | 4,626 |
| Bear Lake County | 4,020 |
| Caribou County | 3,157 |
| Custer County | 3,137 |
| Power County | 2,966 |
| Adams County | 2,674 |
| Oneida County | 2,101 |
| Lincoln County | 1,989 |
| Lewis County | 1,826 |
| Butte County | 1,336 |
| Camas County | 703 |
| Clark County | 456 |
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
Download the full dataset behind this page as CSV or JSON, or browse the data catalog. Cite this page as Understand Idaho, “Idaho housing units”, https://understandidaho.com/housing/units/, retrieved on the date you read it.