Counties / Idaho / Clark County

Clark County, ID

FIPS 16033 · population 849 · outside every metro area

$262k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$262k
▼ 1.6% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
ACS median gross rent
$773
occupied-unit survey; not current asking rent
Census ACS · surveyed
Gross yield
n/a
gross yield cannot be computed without measured market rent
requires both measured price and measured rent
HUD 2-bed standard
$973
the Section 8 payment standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

One annual series is unavailable
FHFA five-year cumulativen/anot annualized · through n/a
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06−1.6%FHFA HPIperiod n/an/a
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$217k
Surveyed gross rent$773
Rent burden 30%+57.7%
Median year built1979
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
38.8%vacant
456estimated housing units
Occupied tenure38.7% renter
owner 61.3%renter 38.7%
Structure mix78.3% single-family
Single-family 78.3%20+ units 0.0%Mobile home 13.2%Other 8.5%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs296▼ 1.7% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments47annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,293▲ 8.5% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities44.2% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS−1.7%WEEKLY WAGE+8.5%Trade, transportation, and utilities44.2%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Clark County presents a low-transaction underwriting question rather than a clear price-or-income case: Zillow's county median home value was $262,196 in 2026-06, down 1.59% year over year, and the record has limited evidence. Buyers requiring demonstrated rent coverage or liquid resale evidence should be cautious; investigators can use this only as a parcel-screening starting point, not a county conclusion. FHFA annual HPI is not published, so no repeat-transaction index independently tests Zillow's value direction.

02Housing economics

No county market asking rent is published. Consequently, gross yield cannot be computed from the home-value figure. HUD's two-bedroom FMR is $973 per month, but it is a payment standard rather than market rent and cannot substitute for it. Carrying costs include an effective property-tax rate of 0.33% and median annual tax of $713; assessment details, insurance, financing, utilities and repairs are absent, preventing an all-in cash-flow test.

03Demand & competition

QCEW's 2025 annual average reports 296 covered jobs at county workplaces, down 1.66% from the prior annual average; this is neither resident employment nor unemployment. Its covered-worker average weekly wage was $1,293, up 8.47%, and Trade, transportation, and utilities comprised 44.19% of total private covered jobs—the largest disclosed private supersector, not the whole economy. One of six purchase mortgages went to a non-occupant, or 16.67%, a narrow measure of investor participation rather than total buyer demand. Realtor.com figures for MLS listing price, active listings, days on market and price reductions are not published, preventing a read on visible supply, marketing time and seller concessions.

04Risk & next checks

Inland flood is the named dominant hazard, and modeled climate loss equals 0.27% of building value per year; it belongs in parcel-specific insurance and exposure review, not a dollar-loss estimate. Migration and mover-income information are not published, so household inflow and purchasing capacity cannot be tested. Next checks are subject-market rents, tax assessment and flood-zone or insurance records, plus sale and listing histories; these determine yield, resale liquidity and hazard cost.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Clark County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Dubois city585Spencer city19
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

2 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Dubois cityIncorporated place
    585
  2. 02
    Spencer cityIncorporated place
    19

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.271% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.33%

$713 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migrationn/a

Household flow not published

Arriving vs leaving incomen/a

Income flow not published

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors16.7%

1 of 6 mortgages

investorother financed
No rent index is published for this county.Zillow’s county rent series does not cover every county, and estimating one from a neighbouring county would be a guess wearing a number’s clothes. Everything above is measured here; no wider market is mapped for it either.
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. County-wide flood-loss modeling may not reflect a subject property's flood exposure or insurance terms.
  2. Absent market-rent and operating-expense inputs can overturn a cash-flow conclusion.
  3. The limited purchase count and missing MLS metrics may not capture resale liquidity or buyer competition.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

What rent information supports a gross-yield calculation?

Market rent is not published, so gross yield cannot be computed; HUD FMR is a payment standard and cannot replace market rent.

What does the labor evidence measure?

QCEW reports annual average covered jobs located at county workplaces, not resident employment or unemployment.

What does the investor measure represent?

It measures non-occupant purchase mortgages, not all purchases or total buyer demand, and is based on a limited supplied count.