Malta, ID population, income and ZIP codes

Malta city is a very small community in Idaho, with 321 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #170 of 236 ranked by population — larger than 28% of them. The median age here is 41.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Malta city earn a median of $48,750 a year, 37.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 24% below the $63,864 median for the 100 Idaho cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 62.3% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Malta city is valued at $145,600, 52% below the national figure and 46% below the $271,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 92% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 321 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Malta city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Malta city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.