Blackfoot, Idaho Short-Term Rental Market
Blackfoot, ID area STR listings averaged $262/night at 61.2% occupancy in June 2026.
Quick Answer: Blackfoot, Idaho is an active short-term rental market. average occupancy in the Idaho Area market area is 61%. average monthly revenue in the Idaho Area market area is $3,987. average daily rate in the Idaho Area market area is $262.
Market data reflects the Idaho Area regional market, which includes Blackfoot. Regulations, taxes, and permit details below are specific to Blackfoot.
Market Overview
Blackfoot is a small agricultural city of about 12,999 people in Bingham County, southeast Idaho, known as the Potato Capital of the World. It is not a resort destination; tourism here is driven by specific events and attractions rather than a single season of overnight-stay volume. The dominant draw is the Eastern Idaho State Fair each September, which reports more than 250,000 visitors over its nine-day run, and the Idaho Potato Museum, a top-five ranked U.S. food museum in a historic downtown railroad depot. Blackfoot also functions as a lodging waypoint for travelers moving between Idaho Falls and Pocatello and heading to Yellowstone and Grand Teton, a few hours away. In the Blackfoot area STR market, the most recent tracked month (June 2026) shows an average daily rate of $262 and occupancy of 61.2%, producing RevPAR of $161 and average revenue of $3,987 per listing for the month. Year over year, the market is running hot: occupancy is up 1.3 percentage points, ADR is up 5.1%, and revenue is up 7.6%. Listing-type, bedroom-count, property-manager, and housing-value data are not published for Blackfoot at a city-specific level in the current dataset, so this profile omits those figures rather than estimate them from county or state totals. Visitor demographics skew toward regional road-trippers, agricultural and fair attendees, and museum day-trippers rather than affluent destination tourists, and no official city-wide annual visitor count exists for Blackfoot itself, distinct from the fair’s own attendance figures.
Seasonal Patterns
| Month | Occupancy |
|---|---|
| Jan | 41% |
| Feb | 48% |
| Mar | 41% |
| Apr | 38% |
| May | 48% |
| Jun | 61% |
| Jul | 68% |
| Aug | 60% |
| Sep | 45% |
| Oct | 42% |
| Nov | 41% |
| Dec | 46% |
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Short-Term Rental Regulations
Short-term rentals are permitted in Blackfoot, and the regulatory environment here is unusually light-touch as of mid-2026. Idaho Code 67-6539 already barred cities and counties from banning STRs outright, and Idaho House Bill 583, signed in 2026 and effective July 1, 2026, goes further: local governments, including Blackfoot, cannot require STR-specific permits, licenses, registrations, owner-occupancy, professional management, extra insurance, inspections, conditional-use permits, guest or day caps, density limits, or neighbor notices. STRs must be treated as a non-transient residential use, subject only to the same zoning, building-code, noise, parking, nuisance, and safety rules (smoke and CO alarms, fire extinguishers, escape ladders) that apply to any single-family home. No Blackfoot-specific STR permit, permit fee, or nightly cap was found. Operators must still register with the Idaho State Tax Commission and collect lodging taxes on stays of 30 nights or fewer: 6% state sales tax plus 2% state Travel and Convention tax, roughly 8% combined, which platforms like Airbnb collect automatically. Blackfoot is not within an auditorium district and is not a resort city with a local-option tax, so no additional local lodging tax applies. Enforcement is rated minimal. Net effect: a very light-touch, investor-friendly regulatory environment layered on a modest, non-resort tourism base.
Market Comparison
At 61.2% occupancy, the Blackfoot area STR market is running above the commonly cited U.S. STR median occupancy of roughly 55%. Its $262 ADR is also above the national median of roughly $220, a gap of about 19%, a notable result for a market whose tourism base rests on a food museum and a single annual fair rather than a marquee destination. That combination, above-average occupancy and above-average ADR for the latest tracked month, sits against a longer-term trend of occupancy cooling from its 2021 pandemic-era peak of 56.8% down to 46.5% on a 2026 year-to-date basis, so current strength should be read alongside that multi-year softening. Top property manager rosters are not published for Blackfoot at a city-specific level in the current dataset, so this profile omits operator rankings rather than estimate them from broader regional totals.
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