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Lewiston is the largest city and the prime county seat in the Nez Perce County, Idaho. Being the second largest residential area in the Idaho Panhandle region, second only to Coeur d’Alene, Lewiston is the principal city in the Lewiston Idaho-Washington Metropolitan Statsistical Area, which includes the Nez Perce County located in Idaho, and the Asotin County of Washington.
The 2000 census declared the population of Lewiston to be about 30,000, with absolutely no growth listed in the three years after.
Lewiston is located right and the connection of the Snake River and the Clearwater River. The main industry in this town is the mill owned by the Potlatch Corporation, responsible for the paper and timber products of a large part of Idaho.
The complete lack of growth hurts the value of the real estate in this location.
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The county of Bannock County is home to the city of Pocatello: the largest city (and the county seat) of Bannock, though a small portion of this town enters Power County in southeastern Idaho. Being a member of the Pocatello Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area, Pocataello’s population is approximately 52,000 citizens making it in a fluctuating position of third or fourth largest city in the state: competing only with Idaho Falls.
Home to Idaho State University, Pocatello has a fairly large educational community. The town was founded on the first railroad in Idaho during the gold rush, and later became one of the most important agricultural centers in the entire state. It is positioned along the Portneuf River, past the emergance from the mountains on to the Snake River Plains and part of the Oregon Trail.
Named after the original Native American chief, Cheif Pocatello, there is a relatively small (1.4%) Native American population in Pocatello. 35% of the nearly 20,000 households in the city have children under eighteen, and 25% accounted for citizens living alone. The median household income in the city is $35,000 USD.
The city has lots of population fluctuation, but very little overall growth, and as such is considered a relatively weak real estate market, though the University environment aids the rental market significantly.
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Twin Falls, Idaho is the county seat of the Twin Falls County, Idaho. Being the largest city in this county, Twin Falls, Idaho has a population of approximately 35,000 residents spread across about 13,000 households.
Twin Falls has an interesting and diverse history, with humans believed to have resided in the area as long as fifteen THOUSAND years ago. Believed to be one of the origins of Native American society, artifiacts and evidence of human activity, including arrowheads can be dated back thousands of years and are widely renouned as the oldest dated artifacts in North America.
Twin Falls is the largest city in the Idaho Magic Valley region, as well as being the seventh largest in the state. Being the largest city in a one hundred mile radius, Twin Falls serves as a commercial center for southern Idaho and northern Nevada.
The Twin Falls Idahoian Micropolitan Statistical Area (TFIMSA) is the state’s largest MSA, officially including both the Jerome County and Twin Falls County. The community of Jackpot, Nevada is unofficially considered a part of this area.
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Meridian, Idaho is the Ada Country of Idaho is a small city, population of about 30,000 citizens. Though it is ranked as the fifth largest city in Idaho, by most standards, this is still a relatively small town. Following the standard Idahoian growth patterns, in the last hundred years the population of this town has increased ten-fold.
The city has an allocated 30km2 of property - all being land, mostly unforested. The famous NASCAR driver, Randy Tolsma grew up in Meridian and is one of the few famous residents of the small town.
Fifty percent of the households in Meridian, Idaho have children under the age of eighteen - more than any other city in Idaho. One third of the Meridian population is under 18 and 7% is over the age of 65.
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Coeur d’Alene is the county seat and the absolute largest city of the Kootenai County in Idaho. It’s the principal, and founding city of the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. The 2000 census puts the population of Coeur d’Alene at just 35,000 citizens, much lower than the reputation it’s name would imply about the region.
Coeur d’Alene has a huge tourism market, having been called “a little slice of Heaven” and added to Barbara Walters’ list of the “most fascinating places to visit.” Coeur d’Alene is frequently refered to as “The Lake City” or simply “CDA.”
There are abundant campgrounds in the area surrounding the small city, due to it being in a heavily wooded area, with large diversity of wildlife.
32% of Coeur d’Alenian households have children under the age of 18, and 11% had at least one senior citizen living with them. Nearly 30% of households were made up of individuals living on their own.
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Boise, Idaho, the capital and by far the largest city in the United States’ state of Idaho, named after the French-Canadian trappers who originally explored the area after crossing the large and rampant desert plains, finding green trees (mostly cottonwoods) along the river, they named the city boisé - French for “wooded land.”
Consequently, the city of Boise, Idaho has been nicknamed The City of Trees. With the original Fort of Boise nearly forty miles west: down the Boise River near the connection between the Snake River and the Oregon Border. The fort was originally built by the Canadian Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 1830s, then abandoned in 1850 until 1863. The massacres down the Oregon Trail in the sixties forced the United States army to rebuild and reestablish Fort Boise for security and safety reasons.
Boise is home to the headquarters and largest operations of Washington Group International, Inc., the former Morrison Knudsen Corporation, Micron Technology, SuperValu’s Albertsons, and the J.R. Simplot Company. There is a large manufcaturing and production industry in Boise, and the high tech industries are rapidly becoming a vital and large section of the Boise economy.
The average home price in Boise, Idaho has been reported between $150,000 and $175,000 depending on who you talk to.
