Mountain Home is a medium-sized city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 16,703 people and five associated neighborhoods, Mountain Home is the 16th largest community in Idaho.
6.17% of the workforce is employed in the armed forces, making the military a huge focus of life in Mountain Home. Even though it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy. The Retail and Manufacturing industries respectively employ 15.50% and 12.73% of the civilian workforce.
Being a small city, Mountain Home does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Mountain Home citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.86% of adults 25 and older in Mountain Home have a college degree.
The per capita income in Mountain Home in 2022 was $28,969, which is middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,876 for a family of four. However, Mountain Home contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mountain Home is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mountain Home home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountain Home residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Mountain Home also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.83% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mountain Home include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Mountain Home is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.