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Idaho County Map With Cities

By Marko Visic · Updated Oct 5, 2026

Idaho has 44 counties, covering 82,645 square miles of land. The Census Bureau estimates its population at 2,029,733 as of July 1, 2025. The largest county by land area is Idaho County; the most populous is Ada County; the least populous is Clark County.

Counties
44
Population
2,029,733
Land area
82,645 sq mi
Capital
Boise
Time Zone
Mountain (MT), Pacific (PT)

Tap or click any county for details. Need a printable version? Blank Idaho map (PDF/PNG/SVG).

All 44 Idaho counties

County FIPS code Population (July 1, 2025) ▼Change since April 2020 Land area (sq mi) People per sq mi Median household income (2020–2024)
Ada County16001546,141+10.3%1,052519$91,502
Canyon County16027275,123+19.0%587469$76,488
Kootenai County16055191,864+12.0%1,238155$81,861
Bonneville County16019135,771+9.5%1,86673$79,068
Twin Falls County1608397,539+8.3%1,92251$67,409
Bannock County1600591,591+5.2%1,11282$66,499
Madison County1606555,172+4.3%469118$60,160
Bonner County1601754,420+15.5%1,73331$66,979
Bingham County1601151,153+6.6%2,09424$77,878
Nez Perce County1606942,905+1.9%84851$72,599
Latah County1605741,842+5.9%1,08039$65,424
Jefferson County1605135,297+14.3%1,09432$86,679
Elmore County1603929,465+2.8%3,07510$65,359
Payette County1607527,824+9.6%40768$67,673
Cassia County1603126,397+6.9%2,56610$70,830
Jerome County1605326,362+8.7%59844$71,724
Blaine County1601325,517+5.1%2,63810$92,566
Minidoka County1606722,911+6.1%75730$70,377
Gem County1604521,773+13.8%56039$64,605
Idaho County1604917,874+8.0%8,4772$66,325
Gooding County1604716,446+5.4%72923$63,559
Franklin County1604115,889+11.9%66324$71,950
Fremont County1604314,208+6.1%1,8648$72,683
Shoshone County1607914,130+7.3%2,6385$55,527
Boundary County1602113,997+16.1%1,26911$67,237
Teton County1608113,254+13.9%44930$99,805
Valley County1608512,831+9.3%3,6654$76,078
Owyhee County1607312,661+6.3%7,6682$64,406
Washington County1608711,583+10.4%1,4538$54,000
Benewah County1600910,508+10.2%77714$59,794
Clearwater County160359,118+4.4%2,4534$60,000
Boise County160158,545+12.3%1,8994$78,774
Lemhi County160598,474+6.3%4,5642$53,202
Power County160778,246+4.7%1,4046$61,146
Caribou County160297,252+3.2%1,7644$68,782
Bear Lake County160076,727+5.7%9767$75,260
Lincoln County160635,603+9.2%1,2015$71,453
Oneida County160715,085+11.4%1,1994$74,954
Adams County160035,013+14.5%1,3634$61,808
Custer County160374,636+8.4%4,9221$67,574
Lewis County160613,704+4.8%4798$51,615
Butte County160232,783+8.2%2,2361$53,015
Camas County160251,316+22.8%1,0741$57,955
Clark County16033783-0.6%1,7630$55,208

FIPS code: the Census Bureau’s five-digit county ID, a two-digit state code plus a three-digit county code. It is not a ZIP code.

How many counties does Idaho have?

Idaho has 44 counties covering 82,645 square miles. The state was admitted to the Union in 1890 as the 43rd state.

The largest county by land area is Idaho County at 8,477 square miles, home to 17,874 residents. The most populous is Ada County with 546,141 residents — a density of 519 people per square mile. At the other end of the scale, Clark County has 783 residents.

Boise is both the state capital and the largest city in Idaho.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Idaho’s county boundaries from our blank map of Idaho page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Idaho county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Idaho address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Idaho specifically: the 100-mile radius around Boise measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Idaho ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Idaho’s 44 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Idaho has 44 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1890 as the 43rd state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.
Idaho County is the largest by land area at 8,477 square miles, with 17,874 residents.
Ada County is the most populous, with 546,141 residents over 1,052 square miles.
Clark County has the smallest population at 783 residents.
Boise is both the state capital and the largest city in Idaho.
County population is the US Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate for July 1, 2025; land and water area are from the 2026 Census Gazetteer; median household income is from the American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates. The county boundaries drawn on the map are the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. All figures are US Census Bureau data in the public domain.
Data sources

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