All Counties in Idaho, Eviction Risk 2026
44 counties covering 236 incorporated cities and 1,413,731 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 2.0/10 (Very Low), but county-level scores vary sharply, urban counties with strong tenant protections or high rent burdens routinely score several points above rural counties.
| County↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | Lean↕ | Renters↕ | % income on rent↕ | Avg rent↕ | Poverty↕ | Cities↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Adams County | 1,282 | 2.3 | Rep | 23.5% | 32.7% | $952 | 17.2% | 2 |
| 02 | Gooding County | 8,264 | 2.3 | Rep | 25.5% | 27.0% | $920 | 17.4% | 4 |
| 03 | Lincoln County | 2,918 | 2.2 | Rep | 19.6% | 26.8% | $919 | 13.0% | 3 |
| 04 | Bannock County | 78,546 | 2.2 | Rep | 18.5% | 33.7% | $1,022 | 10.9% | 8 |
| 05 | Lemhi County | 3,338 | 2.2 | Rep | 19.1% | 35.7% | $770 | 21.6% | 2 |
| 06 | Latah County | 31,315 | 2.1 | IND | 27.2% | 30.6% | $939 | 13.3% | 11 |
| 07 | Canyon County | 194,158 | 2.1 | Rep | 24.1% | 34.2% | $1,150 | 13.5% | 8 |
| 08 | Clark County | 604 | 2.1 | Rep | 21.8% | 31.1% | $770 | 14.1% | 2 |
| 09 | Jerome County | 14,328 | 2.1 | Rep | 27.3% | 29.3% | $857 | 14.7% | 3 |
| 10 | Nez Perce County | 36,548 | 2.1 | Rep | 30.8% | 24.9% | $956 | 18.8% | 5 |
| 11 | Power County | 5,502 | 2.1 | Rep | 15.2% | 21.1% | $795 | 14.6% | 3 |
| 12 | Washington County | 6,606 | 2.1 | Rep | 26.9% | 33.8% | $850 | 19.7% | 3 |
| 13 | Shoshone County | 9,565 | 2.1 | Rep | 28.4% | 30.5% | $958 | 14.9% | 8 |
| 14 | Idaho County | 5,798 | 2.1 | Rep | 31.8% | 21.1% | $797 | 17.2% | 5 |
| 15 | Madison County | 44,674 | 2.1 | Rep | 31.6% | 21.1% | $1,133 | 13.6% | 5 |
| 16 | Elmore County | 21,469 | 2.1 | Rep | 50.4% | 24.9% | $1,194 | 12.7% | 4 |
| 17 | Valley County | 5,276 | 2.1 | Rep | 49.2% | 34.9% | $1,072 | 28.3% | 4 |
| 18 | Ada County | 458,926 | 2.0 | IND | 21.9% | 32.8% | $1,765 | 7.2% | 9 |
| 19 | Bonner County | 17,639 | 2.0 | Rep | 29.7% | 25.2% | $1,103 | 12.1% | 12 |
| 20 | Oneida County | 2,601 | 2.0 | Rep | 15.0% | 36.3% | $894 | 11.8% | 1 |
| 21 | Lewis County | 2,761 | 2.0 | Rep | 18.3% | 28.7% | $739 | 24.0% | 8 |
| 22 | Twin Falls County | 68,757 | 2.0 | Rep | 25.6% | 26.1% | $1,016 | 13.5% | 8 |
| 23 | Minidoka County | 11,801 | 2.0 | Rep | 36.7% | 22.3% | $1,040 | 16.4% | 5 |
| 24 | Benewah County | 4,627 | 2.0 | Rep | 35.6% | 29.3% | $816 | 20.6% | 7 |
| 25 | Kootenai County | 135,250 | 2.0 | Rep | 26.1% | 29.4% | $1,337 | 11.2% | 15 |
| 26 | Bingham County | 28,197 | 1.9 | Rep | 23.9% | 26.9% | $888 | 11.3% | 10 |
| 27 | Jefferson County | 8,971 | 1.9 | Rep | 29.0% | 24.4% | $1,124 | 12.2% | 7 |
| 28 | Payette County | 17,102 | 1.9 | Rep | 36.0% | 26.6% | $885 | 7.8% | 4 |
| 29 | Fremont County | 5,505 | 1.9 | Rep | 30.8% | 21.7% | $978 | 7.3% | 5 |
| 30 | Blaine County | 18,842 | 1.9 | Dem | 27.5% | 23.3% | $1,349 | 7.6% | 7 |
| 31 | Bonneville County | 95,898 | 1.9 | Rep | 16.5% | 25.2% | $1,308 | 10.5% | 7 |
| 32 | Cassia County | 13,987 | 1.9 | Rep | 30.1% | 26.6% | $1,108 | 19.5% | 5 |
| 33 | Owyhee County | 4,929 | 1.9 | Rep | 48.8% | 22.7% | $821 | 17.4% | 4 |
| 34 | Custer County | 1,189 | 1.9 | Rep | 24.0% | 19.8% | $539 | 16.1% | 3 |
| 35 | Boundary County | 4,047 | 1.9 | Rep | 34.9% | 22.4% | $943 | 15.5% | 2 |
| 36 | Boise County | 2,522 | 1.8 | Rep | 24.7% | 16.5% | $974 | 12.2% | 6 |
| 37 | Clearwater County | 4,064 | 1.8 | Rep | 14.2% | 29.7% | $1,096 | 15.9% | 4 |
| 38 | Franklin County | 8,868 | 1.8 | Rep | 12.8% | 21.3% | $1,128 | 5.3% | 6 |
| 39 | Teton County | 6,418 | 1.8 | Dem | 31.6% | 22.2% | $1,531 | 10.2% | 3 |
| 40 | Bear Lake County | 4,487 | 1.8 | Rep | 7.9% | 29.2% | $769 | 9.9% | 6 |
| 41 | Butte County | 1,775 | 1.8 | Rep | 32.4% | 26.7% | $509 | 24.0% | 4 |
| 42 | Gem County | 9,121 | 1.8 | Rep | 24.6% | 29.6% | $1,272 | 11.3% | 4 |
| 43 | Camas County | 499 | 1.7 | Rep | 31.4% | 32.5% | $1,125 | 1.9% | 1 |
| 44 | Caribou County | 4,757 | 1.6 | Rep | 17.9% | 18.5% | $943 | 6.1% | 3 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Idaho
Idaho's 44 counties span eviction-risk scores from 1.6 in Caribou County to 2.3 in Adams County , a 0.7-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 2.0/10 (Very Low), but that single figure hides far more than it reveals, the table above scores every county on the same 1–10 scale so you can see exactly where landlord exposure concentrates.
The counties carrying the most eviction risk, Adams County, Gooding County, Lincoln County, are Idaho's denser, higher-cost markets. In Oneida County, renters spend an average of 36% of household income on rent, and 15% of its homes are renter-occupied, the cost pressure that pushes filings up and pulls tenant-protection ordinances into local politics. Larger metros also concentrate the legal-aid networks and renter-organizing capacity that lift a county's score above the rural baseline.
At the other end of the table, Caribou County, Camas County, Gem County score lowest. These tend to be smaller, more rural counties where homeownership is the norm, rent-to-income ratios run lower, and local rent-control or just-cause ordinances are rare or state-preempted. Evictions still happen there, but the structural pressure that drives a high score (heavy rent burden, a large renter majority, organized tenant advocacy) is simply weaker.
Each county score is a population-weighted aggregate of every city scored inside it, so a county with one expensive urban core and a dozen quiet suburbs lands somewhere in between. Click any county row to drill into its cities ranked one by one, a zoomed heat map, and a full breakdown of rent burden, renter share, poverty rate, and political margin. For the statutes that apply statewide regardless of county, notice periods, security-deposit caps, just-cause and rent-control rules, see the Idaho state overview.