The Boise–Nampa, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) (commonly known as the Boise Metropolitan Area or the Treasure Valley) is an area that encompasses

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, Boise,

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, and Owyhee counties in

southwestern Idaho Southwestern Idaho is a geographical term for the area along the U.S. state of Idaho's borders with Oregon and Nevada. It includes the populous areas of the Boise metropolitan area and Treasure Valley The Treasure Valley is a valley in the weste ...

, anchored by the cities of Boise and

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. It is the main component of the wider Boise–Mountain Home–Ontario, ID–OR Combined Statistical Area, which adds Elmore and Payette counties in Idaho and

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. It is the state's largest officially designated

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and includes Idaho's three largest cities: Boise, Nampa, and

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. Nearly 40 percent of Idaho's total population lives in the area. Boise City Horizon

As of the 2021 estimate, the Boise–Nampa, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had a population of 795,268, while the larger Boise City–Mountain Home–Ontario, ID–OR Combined Statistical Area (CSA) had a population of 850,341. The metro area is currently the third largest in the U.S. section of the

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after

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and

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, and is the 75th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Downtown Boise 2013

Counties

Demographics

As of the 2010 census, there were 616,561 people, 170,291 households, and 120,118 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 89.80%

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, 0.52%

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, 0.80% Native American, 1.38%

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, 0.14%

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, 5.02% from other races, and 2.35% from two or more races.

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of any race were 8.96% of the population. The median income for a household in the MSA was $36,695, and the median income for a family was $42,196. Males had a median income of $31,854 versus $23,244 for females. The

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for the MSA was $17,041.

Communities

Over 200,000 inhabitants

* Boise (principal city)

50,001 to 200,000 inhabitants

Caldwell Caldwell may refer to: People * Caldwell (surname) * Caldwell (given name) * Caldwell First Nation, a federally recognized Indian band in southern Ontario, Canada Places Great Britain * Caldwell, Derbyshire, a hamlet * Caldwell, East ...

10,001 to 50,000 inhabitants

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Kuna Kuna may refer to: Places * Kuna, Idaho, a town in the United States ** Kuna Caves, a lava tube in Idaho * Kuna Peak, a mountain in California * , a village in the Orebić municipality, Croatia * , a village in the Konavle municipality, Croatia ...

* Middleton * Mountain Home * Garden City *

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* Ontario, Oregon

5,001 to 10,000 inhabitants

Emmett Emmett may refer to: Places ;In the United States * Emmett, Idaho * Emmett, Kansas * Emmett, Michigan, a village in St. Clair County * Emmett Charter Township, Michigan in Calhoun County * Emmett Township, St. Clair County, Michigan * Emmett, Misso ...

* Fruitland * Payette

1,001 to 5,000 inhabitants

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* Homedale * Marsing *

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* Nyssa, Oregon *

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* Wilder *

Vale, Oregon Vale is a city in and the county seat of Malheur County, Oregon, United States, about west of the Idaho border. It is at the intersection of U.S. Routes 20 and 26, on the Malheur River at its confluence with Bully Creek. Vale was selected as ...

1,000 inhabitants or fewer

Adrian, Oregon Adrian is a city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States, near the confluence of the Snake River and the Owyhee River. The population was 177 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ontario, OR– ID Micropolitan Statistical Area. History ...

* Crouch * Greenleaf *

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Idaho City Idaho City is a city in and the county seat of Boise County, Idaho, Boise County, Idaho, United States, located about northeast of Boise, Idaho, Boise. The population was 485 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, up from 458 in 2000. ...

* Jordan Valley, Oregon * Melba *

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* Placerville

Unincorporated places

Annex, Oregon Annex is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. Its population was 235 as of the 2010 census. The community is located on the south bank of the Snake River across from Weiser, Idaho; a ...

Arock, Oregon Arock is an unincorporated rural hamlet in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. Although it has never been visited by Google Maps, it is part of the Ontario, OR– ID Micropolitan Statistical Area. There is a post office and K-8 school in ...

* Banks *

Basque, Oregon Basque is an unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 95 about halfway between Burns Junction and McDermitt. Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Bas ...

* Beulah, Oregon * Bowmont * Bruneau *

Burns Junction, Oregon Burns Junction is an unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States, at the intersection of U.S. Route 95 and Oregon Route 78, about southeast of the Harney County Harney County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. sta ...

Cairo, Oregon Cairo is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, Malheur County, Oregon, United States. Its elevation is above sea level. It is about southwest of Ontario, Oregon, Ontario and a half mile north of Cairo Junct ...

* Crowley, Oregon *

Danner, Oregon Danner is an unincorporated community located in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It lies along Danner Road off U.S. Route 95 west of Jordan Valley. Jordan Creek flows by Danner. History The old Idaho-Oregon-Nevada highway ran throug ...

* Garden Valley * Hamilton Corner * Harper, Oregon * Huston *

Ironside, Oregon Ironside is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, Malheur County, Oregon, United States. The community is northwest of Vale, Oregon, Vale along U.S. Route 26 in Oregon, U.S. Route 26. Ironside has a post of ...

Jamieson, Oregon Jamieson is an unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. The community is northwest of Vale along U.S. Route 26. Jamieson's only business or service is a post office A post office is a public facility and a retaile ...

Jonesboro, Oregon Jonesboro is an unincorporated historic community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It is located on U.S Route 20, between Juntura and Harper, near the Malheur River. Jonesboro was a station on the Union Pacific Railroad The Union ...

* Juntura, Oregon * Letha * Lowman *

McDermitt, Nevada-Oregon McDermitt is an unincorporated community straddling the Nevada–Oregon border, in Humboldt County, Nevada, and Malheur County, Oregon, United States. McDermitt's economy has historically been based on mining, ranching, and farming. The last mini ...

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* Owyhee, Oregon *

Payette Junction, Oregon Payette Junction is a highway junction and unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It lies at the intersection of Oregon Route 52 and Oregon Route 201 between Ontario, Oregon, and Weiser, Idaho. It is about a mile from ...

* Riddle * Riverside, Oregon *

Rome, Oregon Rome, also called Rome Station after its sole business, is an unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Ontario, OR– ID Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the sparsely populated high desert of sout ...

* Roswell * Sunnyslope * Sweet

Transportation

Airports

* Boise Airport *

Nampa Municipal Airport Nampa Municipal Airport is a city-owned public airport in Nampa, Idaho, Nampa, in Canyon County, Idaho, Canyon County, Idaho. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 called it a ''general aviation'' airport. It is u ...

Caldwell Industrial Airport Caldwell Executive Airport (formerly Treasure Valley Executive Airport at Caldwell) is a city-owned public airport three miles (5 km) southeast of Caldwell, in Canyon County, Idaho, United States. The airport opened in 1976, replacing a sm ...

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Interstates

Interstate 84 * I-184

Interstate 184

U.S. highways

U.S. Route 20 * US 26

U.S. Route 26 U.S. Route 26 (US 26) is an east–west United States highway that runs from Seaside, Oregon to Ogallala, Nebraska. When the U.S. highway system was first defined, it was limited to Nebraska and Wyoming; by the 1950s, it continued into Idaho and ...

U.S. Route 30 * US 95

U.S. Route 95 US Route 95 (US 95) is a major north–south US Highway in the western United States. It travels through the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho, staying inland from the Pacific Coast. US 95 begins in San Luis, ...

State highways

State Highway 16 * ID-19

State Highway 19 * ID-21

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State Highway 44 * ID-45

State Highway 45 * ID-51

State Highway 51 * ID-52

State Highway 52 * ID-55

State Highway 55 * ID-67

State Highway 67 * ID-69

State Highway 69 * ID-72

State Highway 72 * ID-78

State Highway 78 * ID-167

State Highway 167 * OR 52

Oregon Route 52 Oregon Route 52 (OR 52) is a very short Oregon state highway that runs from OR 201 at Payette Junction, Oregon, to the Snake River (the Idaho state line) at Payette, Idaho. It is a continuation of ID 52 and was once signed as Oregon Route 90. ...

Oregon Route 78 Oregon Route 78 is an Oregon state highway running from Burns in Harney County to Burns Junction in Malheur County. OR 78 is known as the Steens Highway No. 442 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs northwest to southeast. R ...

Oregon Route 201 Oregon Route 201 is a north–south state highway in eastern Oregon. It currently runs from the Idaho state line just south of Adrian to Interstate 84 south of Huntington. Between the state line and Succor Creek Road, it is known the Home ...

Oregon Route 451 Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...

Oregon Route 452 Oregon Route 452 (OR 452) is an Oregon state highway running from OR 201 near Adrian to State Line Road at the Idaho state line. OR 452 is known as the Parma Spur No. 489 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs east–west, en ...

Oregon Route 453 Oregon Route 453 (OR 453) is an Oregon state highway running from OR 454 near Adrian to State Line Road on the Idaho state line near Adrian. OR 453 is known as the Adrian-Arena Valley Highway No. 453 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is lon ...

Oregon Route 454

Mass transit

ValleyRide

Colleges and universities

Major universities

Boise State University Boise State University (BSU) is a public research university in Boise, Idaho. Founded in 1932 by the Episcopal Church, it became an independent junior college in 1934 and has been awarding baccalaureate and master's degrees It became a publ ...

(BSU), Boise, Idaho

Four-year colleges and universities

* Northwest Nazarene University (NNU), Nampa, Idaho * The

College of Idaho The College of Idaho (C of I) is a private liberal arts college in Caldwell, Idaho. Founded in 1891, it is the state's oldest private liberal arts college and has an enrollment of over 1,000 students. The college's alumni include eight Rhode ...

(C of I),

Caldwell, Idaho Caldwell (locally CALL-dwel) is a city in and the county seat of Canyon County, Idaho. The population was 59,996 at the time of the 2020 United States census. Caldwell is considered part of the Boise metropolitan area. Caldwell is the location of ...

University of Idaho The University of Idaho (U of I, or UIdaho) is a public land-grant research university in Moscow, Idaho. It is the state's land-grant and primary research university,, and the lead university in the Idaho Space Grant Consortium. The University ...

(U of I), Boise; Extension Campus *

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(ISU), Meridian, Idaho; Extension Campus

Community colleges and trade schools

College of Western Idaho College of Western Idaho (CWI) is a public community college in Southwest Idaho with its primary campus locations in Boise and Nampa. CWI also offers classes at several community locations throughout the Treasure Valley. It is one of four compr ...

, Nampa, Idaho (CWI) Nampa; Main Campus, Aspen Classroom Bldg., Canyon County Extension Boise; Ada County Campus * Treasure Valley Community College,

(TVCC) Ontario, Oregon; Main Campus

; Caldwell Campus *

Northwest Lineman College Northwest Lineman College, founded in 1993, is a private vocational technical college offering training programs with a concentration on careers in the power delivery industry. The main campus is located in Meridian, Idaho and branch campuses are ...

(NLC),

Kuna, Idaho Kuna ( ) is a city in Ada County, Idaho. It is part of the Boise metropolitan area. The population was 24,011 at the time of the 2020 census. Kuna is one of the fastest-growing areas in Idaho, having nearly tripled in population between 2000 a ...

Heavy Equipment Operator School of Idaho Heavy may refer to: Measures * Heavy (aeronautics), a term used by pilots and air traffic controllers to refer to aircraft capable of 300,000 lbs or more takeoff weight * Heavy, a characterization of objects with substantial weight * Heavy, ...

, Boise * Stevens-Henager College, Boise, Idaho Nampa, Idaho * Carrington College, Boise *

Broadview University Broadview College, formerly Utah Career College, is a private for-profit college in West Jordan, Utah. It primarily award associate degrees. History Broadview College, originally The Bryman School, and later Utah Career College, was founded in ...

, Meridian, Idaho *

University of Phoenix University of Phoenix (UoPX) is a private for-profit university headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded in 1976, the university confers certificates and degrees at the certificate, associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree lev ...

Meridian; Main Campus * Boise Bible College, Boise

Major valley employers

Micron Technology Micron Technology, Inc. is an American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and USB flash drives. It is headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Its consumer products, including ...

Boise, Nampa * Saint Luke's Medical Centers Boise, Meridian, Eagle, Nampa * Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Centers Boise, Nampa, Caldwell, Ontario *

Simplot The J. R. Simplot Company (commonly referred to as Simplot) is an agribusiness company headquartered in Boise, Idaho. History Simplot was founded in 1929 by 20-year-old John Richard Simplot near the agricultural community of Declo in south ...

Boise, Caldwell *

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

Garden City / Boise * Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Meridian *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

Nampa *

T-Mobile US T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas and Bellevue, Washington, U.S. Its largest shareholder is a multinational telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG, which , holds 48.4 perc ...

Meridian *

DirecTV DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California. Originally launched on June 17, 1994, its primary service is a digital satellite service serving the United States. It ...

Boise *

Teleperformance Teleperformance SE (TP) is an omnichannel company headquartered in France. The company provides customer acquisition management, customer care, technical support, debt collection, social media services, and other services. It operates in 88 cou ...

Boise

References

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