City · Twin Falls County, Idaho

Twin Falls, Idaho

Twin Falls is a city in Twin Falls County, Idaho, part of the Twin Falls, ID metro area. It has 54,164 residents. Twin Falls, Idaho has a quality-of-life score of 53 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,318 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Idaho it ranks #53 of 101 cities and towns. It ranks best on loneliness (low), natural hazard risk (low) and average commute time (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), distance to an Amtrak station (high) and distance to an airport (high).

53Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,318 of 15,651 cities and towns
Idaho: #53 of 101 in ID
Population: 54,164 (2020-2024)
Land area: 20 mi²
Density: 2,725.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 1682810

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Open in the map

Scores by category

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

Safety37#9,870/15,637
Economy51#7,617/15,631
Housing44#8,431/14,977
Health43#8,960/15,609
Healthcare44#8,747/15,650
Environment94#915/15,453
Education38#9,705/15,649
Infrastructure37#9,834/15,650
Community63#5,790/15,651
Leisure & amenities76#3,724/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Twin Falls, Idaho ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Twin Falls 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

Loneliness · low31.0%
98/100Idaho 29.7%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Natural hazard risk · low1.8
97/100Idaho 30.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyTwin Falls County value
Average commute time · low15.7 min
97/100Idaho 21.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Median Air Quality Index · low26
96/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTwin Falls County value
Child care cost burden · low20.0%
94/100Idaho 20.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTwin Falls County value
Job growth · high2.1%
89/100Idaho 1.9%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataTwin Falls 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 NOAATwin Falls County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high136 mi
6/100Idaho 155 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauTwin Falls County value
Distance to an airport · high111 mi
7/100Idaho 49 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauTwin Falls County value
Mammography screening · low37.0%
11/100Idaho 45.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTwin Falls County value
Distance to an emergency room · high11.7 mi
12/100Idaho 8.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesTwin Falls County value
Average weekly wage · low$964
13/100Idaho $1,200United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTwin Falls County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
48,951 (2015-2019) → 54,164 (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.2× (2015-2019) → 5.2× (2020-2024)
+64%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
New homes permittedWorsening
10.9 /1k (2021) → 5.6 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−48%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
45.0% (2015-2019) → 53.6% (2020-2024)
+8.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
83.4% (2015-2019) → 89.6% (2020-2024)
+6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
14.9% (2015-2019) → 10.6% (2020-2024)
−4.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Twin Falls, Idaho improved on 5 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 6 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved5

Uninsured−4.3 points14.9% → 10.6%
Poverty−3.4 points14.8% → 11.4%
Bachelor's++4 points20.5% → 24.5%
Broadband+6.2 points83.4% → 89.6%
Household income+21%$50,739 → $61,205

Declined2

Price / income+2.1×3.2× → 5.2×
Rent / income+3.2 points28.1% → 31.3%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Twin Falls, Idaho between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	16.9 min2015-2019	15.7 min2020-2024	−1.2 min	Within the margin of error	62%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.5%2015-2019	24.5%2020-2024	+4 points	Improved	60%
Broadband subscriptions	83.4%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Improved	39%
Child poverty rate	19.1%2015-2019	15.0%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Effective property tax rate	0.97%2015-2019	0.69%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	72%
High school diploma or higher	87.6%2015-2019	90.5%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Home price to income ratio	3.2×2015-2019	5.2×2020-2024	+2.1×	Declined	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4302015-2019	0.4282020-2024	−0.002	Within the margin of error	52%
Median household income	$50,7392015-2019	$61,2052020-2024	+21%	Improved	34%
Poverty rate	14.8%2015-2019	11.4%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Improved	72%
Rent as share of income	28.1%2015-2019	31.3%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Declined	32%
Rent-burdened households	45.0%2015-2019	53.6%2020-2024	+8.6 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Unemployment rate	3.0%2015-2019	3.0%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	14.9%2015-2019	10.6%2020-2024	−4.3 points	Improved	84%

“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 Twin Falls, Idaho five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Twin Falls, 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, Twin Falls, Idaho itself moved −5.7 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

54,164 residents (±45)

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

20,828 households (±555)

Twin Falls, Idaho
Idaho share

Under $25k17%3,468
$25k–50k24%4,992
$50k–75k18%3,830

Homes

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

Owners and renters

20,828 households (±555)

Twin Falls, Idaho
Idaho share

Own64%13,353
Rent36%7,475

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

26,478 workers (±994)

Twin Falls, Idaho
Idaho share

Drive alone79%20,803
Carpool11%2,882
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Twin Falls, ID

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 Twin Falls County, the county holding most of Twin Falls's residents.

Twin Falls County has 3,026 employer establishments, 317 for every 10,000 residents (1.28× the US rate of 248; 1.08× Idaho's), with 34,299 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,219. The Census Bureau also counts 7,361 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,026; 7,361 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 317; US 248 · Idaho 295
Paid employees: 34,299
Average annual pay: $45,219; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	372	39	1.87×More than typical	3,127	$59,761	336
Specialty trade contractors	271	28.4	1.84×More than typical	1,241	$48,632	505
Restaurants and other eating places	193	20.2	1.10×About typical	3,860	$18,654	38
Lessors of real estate	160	16.8	1.36×More than typical	306	$35,804	886
Offices of physicians	122	12.8	1.98×More than typical	528	$100,693	75
Truck transportation	116	12.2	2.40×More than typical	721	$56,236	383
Offices of other health practitioners	110	11.5	1.90×More than typical	568	$37,583	165
Construction of buildings	107	11.2	1.48×More than typical	497	$58,044	234
Services to buildings and dwellings	106	11.1	1.65×More than typical	400	$32,823	423
Limited-service restaurants	92	9.6	1.20×About typical	2,125	$17,240	12
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	80	8.4	2.06×More than typical	257	$49,977	135
Real estate agents and brokers	76	8	1.64×More than typical	127	$37,417	223

Rank places for an industry Open Twin Falls County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 95,392 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 $1.8M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Twin Falls, Idaho: $32.96 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1.8M; +8.3% vs FY2025
Per resident: $32.96; US $1,994
Sole-source: 1.3%; US 30%
Single offer: 32%; 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

Forest Service$1M57%
Departmental Offices$360.1K20%
Defense Logistics Agency$331.7K19%
U.S. Coast Guard$34.6K1.9%
Bureau of Land Management$9,4580.5%
Department of Veterans Affairs$8,2940.5%
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$6,1830.3%
National Park Service$5,7710.3%

Top recipients

SPUR AVIATION SERVICES, LC$1M58%
BLUE GROUP LLC$363K20%
REEDER FLYING SERVICE, INC.$358.6K20%
MAGIC VALLEY HELI-ARC & MFG., INC.$6,1830.3%
OREGON PREMIER LOCATIONS, LLC$5,7710.3%

Spending by fiscal year

580KFY2017
358KFY2018
216.8KFY2019
327.7KFY2020
314.3KFY2021
1.1MFY2022
1MFY2023
1.3M

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonscheduled air transportation · 4812$1.3M72%
Support activities for forestry · 1153$104.8K5.9%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$93.8K5.3%
Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$68K3.8%
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353$56.9K3.2%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$43K

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 Twin Falls, Idaho, so they do not add up across cities.

Twin Falls, Idaho's figures are part of those of Twin Falls County, ID ($30.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 5.9% of that total.

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

See federal money in Twin Falls 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.

Twin Falls, 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.

Twin Falls County68100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Twin Falls, ID47

Other cities and towns in Twin Falls 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

JSON · /api/v1/places/1682810

Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends