Home prices in Boise run 7% above the national median: $450,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $72,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 6.3x.
Boise's 0.69% property tax rate runs below the 1.1% national average. That's $259/month on the median home here, not a rounding error against the mortgage payment.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Idaho taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $2,780/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Boise track at 104 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Boise's median home price runs 6% lower than nearby Meridian: $480,000 there versus $450,000 here.