City · Gooding County, Idaho

Hagerman, Idaho

Hagerman is a city in Gooding County, Idaho. It has 1,276 residents. Hagerman, Idaho has a quality-of-life score of 39 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,538 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Idaho it ranks #73 of 101 cities and towns. It ranks best on drug overdose deaths (low), loneliness (low) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), distance to an emergency room (high) and flu vaccinations (low).

39Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,538 of 15,651 cities and towns
Idaho: #73 of 101 in ID
Population: 1,276 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 2,169.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 1634300

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety33#10,527/15,637
Economy40#9,425/15,631
Housing62#5,634/14,977
Health39#9,539/15,609
Healthcare4#15,098/15,650
Environment62#5,905/15,453
Education38#9,721/15,649
Infrastructure26#11,610/15,650
Community55#7,058/15,651
Leisure & amenities96#677/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hagerman, Idaho ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Gooding County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Idaho 13.2 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataGooding County value
Loneliness · low31.9%
98/100Idaho 29.7%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low4.7 µg/m³
97/100Idaho 8.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2019Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyGooding County value
Gyms and fitness centers · high2.4 /10k
97/100Idaho 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsGooding County value
Child care cost burden · low20.3%
94/100Idaho 20.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGooding County value
Restaurants and bars · high13.4 /10k
92/100Idaho 9.1 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsGooding County value

Weaknesses

Drought exposure · high100%
1/100Idaho 73%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAGooding County value
Distance to an emergency room · high19.1 mi
3/100Idaho 8.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesGooding County value
Flu vaccinations · low27.0%
4/100Idaho 36.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGooding County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high149 mi
5/100Idaho 155 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauGooding County value
Traffic deaths · high32.5 /100k
6/100Idaho 12.6 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataGooding County value
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100Idaho 9.7United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationGooding County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,056 (2015-2019) → 1,276 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
12.2% (2015-2019) → 32.3% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
New homes permittedWorsening
4.1 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.4% (2015-2019) → 88.8% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$40,000 (2015-2019) → $59,808 (2020-2024)
+50%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
49.5% (2015-2019) → 41.4% (2020-2024)
−8.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Hagerman, Idaho improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Bachelor's++20 points12.2% → 32.3%
Broadband+19 points69.4% → 88.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Hagerman, Idaho between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.3 min2015-2019	23.5 min2020-2024	−1.9 min	Within the margin of error	69%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.2%2015-2019	32.3%2020-2024	+20 points	Improved	99%
Broadband subscriptions	69.4%2015-2019	88.8%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	89%
Child poverty rate	31.6%2015-2019	24.9%2020-2024	−6.8 points	Within the margin of error	74%
Effective property tax rate	0.59%2015-2019	0.59%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	15%
High school diploma or higher	93.0%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	3.3×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	62%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4072015-2019	0.4732020-2024	+0.066	Within the margin of error	11%
Median household income	$40,0002015-2019	$59,8082020-2024	+50%	Within the margin of error	84%
Poverty rate	18.7%2015-2019	14.3%2020-2024	−4.4 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Hagerman, Idaho five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hagerman, Idaho in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Hagerman, Idaho itself moved +3.5 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,276 residents (±265)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

650 households (±150)

Hagerman, Idaho
Idaho share

Under $25k21%†139
$25k–50k23%†152
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

650 households (±150)

Hagerman, Idaho
Idaho share

Own85%555
Rent15%†95

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (−12.3 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

508 workers (±158)

Hagerman, Idaho
Idaho share

Drive alone92%†468
Carpool2.0%†10
Public transit0.0%

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Gooding County, the county holding most of Hagerman's residents.

Gooding County has 360 employer establishments, 223 for every 10,000 residents (0.90× the US rate of 248; 0.75× Idaho's), with 3,201 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,142. The Census Bureau also counts 1,000 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 360; 1,000 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 223; US 248 · Idaho 295
Paid employees: 3,201
Average annual pay: $51,142; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Gooding County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	39	24.1	1.56×More than typical	144	$50,924	71
Truck transportation	31	19.2	3.79×More than typical	93	$41,935	83
Construction of buildings	19	11.7	1.55×More than typical	98	$51,561	33
Ambulatory health care services	18	11.1	0.53×Fewer than typical	148	$38,061	26
Restaurants and other eating places	17	10.5	0.57×Fewer than typical	248	$14,040	6
Automotive repair and maintenance	12	7.4	1.47×More than typical	51	$43,431	16
Building equipment contractors	12	7.4	1.23×About typical	41	$52,780	15
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	12	7.4	2.35×More than typical	41	$43,683	14
Other specialty trade contractors	12	7.4	2.96×More than typical	54	$58,944	24
Gasoline stations	11	6.8	2.10×More than typical	117	$33,094	—
Food manufacturing	10	6.2	6.69×More than typical	671	$63,478	4
Lessors of real estate	10	6.2	0.50×Fewer than typical	18	$12,389	97

Rank places for an industry Open Gooding County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 16,175 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $7,822 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hagerman, Idaho: $6.13 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $7,822; −54% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6.13; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Agricultural Research Service$5,97576%
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$1,84724%

Top recipients

THERMO ELECTRON NORTH AMERICA LLC$4,92963%
GLOBAL ENGINEERING SERVICES INC$1,50119%
PATRIOT ALLIED SOLUTIONS LLC$1,04613%
SOUZA CONSTRUCTION, INC.$3464.4%
SHAW SHOOTING INC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

16.8KFY2017
16.1KFY2018
2.5KFY2019
30.8KFY2020
24.5KFY2021
26KFY2022
7.4KFY2023
72.2KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$4,92963%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$1,84724%
Animal food manufacturing · 3111$1,04613%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Hagerman, Idaho, so they do not add up across cities.

Hagerman, Idaho's figures are part of those of Gooding County, ID ($760K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Hagerman is mostly in Gooding County.

See federal money in Gooding County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Hagerman, Idaho is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Michael K. SimpsonR-ID-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 95%Missed 2.1%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Gooding County45100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Gooding County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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