Mountain Home, Idaho

Mountain Home population, 2020 to 2024

Mountain Home added 839 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +167. Among 36 Idaho places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 28th; the median place changed by +8.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Idaho has 16,745 people, so Mountain Home is 1.0 times that size.

Mountain Home covers 7.11 square miles of land and 0.29 of water, for 2,379 people per square mile of land. The median Idaho place of 5,000+ has 2,389, so Mountain Home is close to the typical town.

What county Mountain Home is in

All of Mountain Home's residents live in Elmore County, which had 29,729 residents in 2024. Mountain Home holds 56.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mountain Home

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mountain Home by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 83647. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Mountain Home is

The Census internal point of Mountain Home is at 43.131800, -115.696700. Boise, the capital, is 42.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Boise City, ID (237,963 people), 41.9 miles away.

Daylight in Mountain Home

At 43.13° N, Mountain Home gets about 15 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mountain Home

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Idaho, measured between internal points. The closest is Glenns Ferry, 23.3 miles away, with 1,288 people.