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A town of 2,654, settled in 1866.
Fort Hall gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $396K for a typical one, or 6 years of the Pocatello metro’s $66K median household income. It grades C− overall, ranked 51st of 58 in Idaho. The low prices come with trade-offs. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 97% of the country, and the median household income is $45K, and 23% of residents live below the poverty line. 39% of working residents work locally in Fort Hall, against 20% in Idaho’s towns and 8% across U.S. towns. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 100% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 8 of Idaho’s 94 towns do worse.
Where Fort Hall beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Idaho), ordered by how far Fort Hall is from typical.
Its grades run from A for cost of living (better than 90% of comparable towns) to D− for walkability (better than 1%), so the C− overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 2 maps from 1940 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fort Hall is unincorporated, so Bannock County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Fort Hall.
Fort Hall has a shorter frost-free season than nearly all U.S. towns and has commutes shorter than most of Idaho, but it has poverty well above the Idaho rate.
No town among the 59 in Idaho we compare has a higher share of adults who have diabetes than Fort Hall. 21% of adults report frequent physical distress locally, and among 59 Idaho towns, just 2 have a higher share of adults who feel lonely than Fort Hall. CDC measures, 32 in all: Fort Hall beats Idaho on 2 and trails on 26.
| Fort Hall | Idaho towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 18% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 10% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 14% | 14% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Fort Hall | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 12.1% | 15.5% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 7% | 8.3% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 32.5% | 12.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Two of its 3 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. The 3 public schools in Fort Hall teach 337 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Tahgee Elementary AcademyLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–7 | Grades K–7 | 109 | D− |
| Shoshone-Bannock SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 6–12 | Grades 6–12 | 127 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within ID on state tests and graduation
The Ft Hall 1 Nne weather station records that the frost-free season runs about 119 days, shorter than in 97% of U.S. towns.
The range runs from 17° on a January night to 88° on a July afternoon, with about 28 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The typical Fort Hall home is worth about $396,000, about the same as a year ago, 17% below the Idaho typical home. In Fort Hall, the midpoint rent is $672 a month. Among 59 Idaho towns, just 5 have a higher share of households owning their home than Fort Hall.
| Fort Hall | Idaho towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $672 a month | $1,125 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 84% | 69% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The average commute for its 1,164 working residents takes 15.4 minutes, against 21.6 across Idaho.
Fort Hall’s average commute comes in at 15 minutes. Employers in Fort Hall added 275 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,247. The top destinations are Pocatello (18%), Chubbuck (5%) and Idaho Falls (5%).
| Fort Hall | Idaho towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 15 minutes | 20 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $45,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
18 miles of trail. Fort Hall’s density of trails stands at 0.5 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 59% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fort Hall. Close and well known come first.
35 mi National PreserveCraters of the Moon National Preserve251K visitors a year
9 mi Ancient siteFort Hall
31 mi State parkMassacre Rocks State Park23 mi Ski areaPebble Creek58 runs · 2,133 ft vertical
13 mi MuseumIdaho Potato Museum
10 mi MuseumIdaho Museum of Natural HistoryCraters of the Moon National Preserve: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Hall: National Park Service photographer, Public domain · Massacre Rocks State Park: Matthew Trump, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Idaho Potato Museum: KRRK at English Wikipedia, CC0 · Idaho Museum of Natural History: Abbaby, CC BY-SA 3.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Fort Hall
About 5 of every 100 Fort Hall residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Idaho.
Census-designated place in Idaho, United States
Fort Hall is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho which is split between Bannock County in the south and Bingham County in the north. It is located on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation along the Snake River north of Pocatello and near the site of the original Fort Hall in the Oregon Country. The population was 3,195 at the 2020 census. The Bannock County portion of Fort Hall is part of the Pocatello, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Bingham County portion is part of the Blackfoot, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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One town shares a border with Fort Hall.
Tyhee has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Fort Hall and Tyhee report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Fort Hall with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Fort Hall grades C− overall, better than 23% of U.S. towns and #51 of 58 in Idaho. It grades D− for health and B+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.
