Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
2,654 people live in this town, settled in 1866.
Easy on the wallet, harder on other counts. Its weakest subject is health (D−) — CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 97% of the country. Overall, Fort Hall earns a C−, which places it 51st of 58 in Idaho. That leaves it better than 23% of U.S. towns. It lags on walkability as well. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 100% of U.S. towns. Its best grade is for cost of living: a typical home costs about $396K, 6 years of the Pocatello metro’s $66K median household income. Incomes are weaker too: the median household income is $45K, and 23% of residents live below the poverty line.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES.
Where Fort Hall beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| Widest gap | Fort Hall | ID |
|---|---|---|
| More adults facing food insecurity | 32.5% | 12.8% |
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. 12% of adults binge drink locally, below both the Idaho town median (15%) and the median of U.S. towns (16%). Among 59 Idaho towns, just 3 have a higher share of adults who get no exercise outside work than Fort Hall, and on top of that for adults locally, the share who sleep under 7 hours is 42%.
| Fort Hall | Idaho towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 18% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 13% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 10% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 14% | 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.
Employers in Fort Hall added 275 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,247. 39% of working residents work locally in the town. Its average commute is 15 minutes, against 20 minutes in Idaho’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Among 59 Idaho towns, just 3 have a higher share of residents below the poverty line than Fort Hall.
| Fort Hall | Idaho towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 39% | 20% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 23% | 11% | 9.6% |
| 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 comes in 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.
