
Ada County · Idaho
ZIP code 83709
- Population
- 58,631
- Median income
- $88,893
- Median home
- $440,700
- Sales tax
- 6%
ZCTA residents
Household, past 12 months
Owner-occupied value
Combined state + local
Quick answer
ZIP 83709 sits in Ada County, Idaho and is home to 58,631 people. Median household income is $88,893, the median home is worth $440,700 and median gross rent is $1,743. 82.7% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% combined.
- County
- Ada County
- State
- Idaho (ID)
- Area codes
- 208
FIPS 16001
280 ZIPs covered
NANPA codes serving this area
The numbers for 83709
American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.
- Population
- 58,631ZIP 83709 residents
- Median household income
- $88,893Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $440,700Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,743Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 36.8 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 82.7%Owner-occupied households
ZIP 83709 in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
ZIP 83709 is a small city in Ada County, Idaho, with 58,631 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #4 of 280 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 36.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in ZIP 83709 earn a median of $88,893 a year, 13.2% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 7.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 83709 is valued at $440,700, 45.3% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,743 a month, 24% above the national figure, or roughly $20,916 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.7% 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.
Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.
Reading ZIP 83709 in context
How 83709 sits inside Ada County and Idaho.
ZIP 83709 is tabulated inside Ada County, Idaho, one of 16 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 280 across Idaho. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 83709 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.
Against its own county, 83709 reports a median household income of $88,893, close to the $87,656 county median, and 30% above the $68,377 typical ID ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $440,700, 9% below the county figure and 48% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,743 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.
A taxable purchase made inside 83709 carries 6% at the register, assembled from the Boise jurisdiction stack: the Idaho state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 83709 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.
Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 83709 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.
Sales tax in 83709
What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.
This ZIP falls inside the Boise rate area, so state, county, city and district levies are published here as a full stack.
Affordability in this ZIP
Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.
A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.
How 83709 compares
ZIP 83709 against the median ZIP in Ada County and across Idaho.
| Measure | ZIP 83709 | County median | State median | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $88,893 | $87,656 | $68,377 | +30% |
| Median home value | $440,700 | $482,500 | $296,900 | +48% |
| Median gross rent | $1,743 | $1,471 | $940 | +85% |
| Population | 58,631 | 28,767 | 1,358 | +4217% |
Medians are computed across the 16 ZIP areas in Ada County and the 280 ZIP areas in Idaho.
Statewide rank
Where this ZIP places among all 280 Idaho ZIP areas.
- Income
- #31
- Home value
- #46
- Population
- #4
richer than 88% of 250 state ZIPs
above 82% of 249 state ZIPs
larger than 99% of 280 state ZIPs
Comparable ZIP codes
Idaho ZIP areas with almost the same household income.
Nearby ZIP codes
Other ZIP codes filed under Ada County.
Adjacent ZIP Codes
Other ZIP codes in Ada County, Idaho.
ZIP 83709 questions
Common questions about this ZIP code.
- Where is ZIP code 83709?
- ZIP 83709 lies mostly in Ada County, Idaho. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
- What sales tax do I pay in 83709?
- Purchases are taxed at 6% combined, built from the Boise jurisdiction stack.
- Is 83709 expensive to live in?
- Median rent runs $1,743 a month, about 24% of median household income, and the median home is worth $440,700 — +48% against the typical Idaho ZIP.
- Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
- Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.
Keep going
Related pages for this area.
Sources & transparency
- US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates — 2019-2023 ACS 5-year — population, income, housing
- Census 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file — County assignment by largest land-area overlap
- Idaho State Tax Commission — Sales tax rates and local add-ons
Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.