How to Meet People in Idaho's Small Towns and Cities
Idaho has about 2.0 million people and 198 incorporated cities and towns, from Boise (238,429 people) to places of a few dozen. Wherever you live in Idaho, the dating pool close to home is a small slice of the whole state. On Amarbis you choose the region you meet people from, so your hometown's size doesn't decide your options.
If you live in a small town and want to meet someone in a nearby city, apps that rank by distance work against you: Tinuiti's analysis of Tinder's algorithm says proximity is a key factor in who it shows you, so the person you'd like to meet sees their own neighbors long before they see you. Ranking on Amarbis isn't based on distance, and joining is free.
Pick your town below for a guide to meeting people from where you live, or, for larger cities, how to meet people from there if you live somewhere else.
Ada County
- Boise: 238,429 people
- Eagle: 34,658 people
- Garden City: 13,047 people
- Kuna: 31,525 people
- Meridian: 142,988 people
- Star: 20,874 people
Adams County
- Council: 985 people
- New Meadows: 684 people
Bannock County
- Arimo: 362 people
- Chubbuck: 16,823 people
- Downey: 583 people
- Inkom: 862 people
- Lava Hot Springs: 374 people
- McCammon: 828 people
- Pocatello: 58,771 people
Bear Lake County
- Bloomington: 212 people
- Georgetown: 492 people
- Montpelier: 2,710 people
- Paris: 541 people
- St. Charles: 185 people
Benewah County
- Plummer: 1,130 people
- St. Maries: 2,457 people
- Tensed: 99 people
Bingham County
- Aberdeen: 1,852 people
- Basalt: 376 people
- Blackfoot: 13,361 people
- Firth: 545 people
- Shelley: 5,303 people
Blaine County
- Bellevue: 2,597 people
- Carey: 727 people
- Hailey: 10,053 people
- Ketchum: 3,643 people
- Sun Valley: 1,776 people
Boise County
- Crouch: 181 people
- Horseshoe Bend: 816 people
- Idaho City: 531 people
- Placerville: 48 people
Bonner County
- Clark Fork: 579 people
- Dover: 1,164 people
- East Hope: 252 people
- Hope: 108 people
- Kootenai: 1,091 people
- Oldtown: 262 people
- Ponderay: 2,024 people
- Priest River: 1,851 people
- Sandpoint: 10,645 people
Bonneville County
- Ammon: 20,119 people
- Idaho Falls: 71,785 people
- Iona: 3,179 people
- Irwin: 302 people
- Swan Valley: 321 people
- Ucon: 1,196 people
Boundary County
- Bonners Ferry: 2,797 people
- Moyie Springs: 1,317 people
Butte County
- Arco: 918 people
- Butte City: 87 people
- Moore: 176 people
Camas County
- Fairfield: 501 people
Canyon County
- Caldwell: 76,629 people
- Greenleaf: 788 people
- Melba: 630 people
- Middleton: 12,600 people
- Nampa: 120,384 people
- Notus: 605 people
- Parma: 2,203 people
- Wilder: 1,734 people
Caribou County
- Bancroft: 317 people
- Grace: 938 people
- Soda Springs: 3,165 people
Cassia County
- Albion: 267 people
- Burley: 12,409 people
- Declo: 372 people
- Malta: 181 people
- Oakley: 835 people
Clark County
- Dubois: 516 people
- Spencer: 29 people
Clearwater County
- Elk River: 144 people
- Orofino: 3,259 people
- Pierce: 516 people
- Weippe: 409 people
Custer County
- Challis: 959 people
- Clayton: 11 people
- Mackay: 480 people
- Stanley: 124 people
Elmore County
- Glenns Ferry: 1,256 people
- Mountain Home: 16,779 people
Franklin County
- Clifton: 466 people
- Dayton: 545 people
- Franklin: 1,155 people
- Oxford: 43 people
- Preston: 6,177 people
- Weston: 586 people
Fremont County
- Ashton: 977 people
- Drummond: 15 people
- Island Park: 190 people
- Newdale: 329 people
- Parker: 289 people
- St. Anthony: 3,990 people
- Teton: 831 people
- Warm River: 1 person
Gem County
- Emmett: 8,900 people
Gooding County
Idaho County
- Cottonwood: 921 people
- Ferdinand: 141 people
- Grangeville: 3,621 people
- Kooskia: 550 people
- Riggins: 396 people
- Stites: 184 people
- White Bird: 83 people
Jefferson County
- Lewisville: 437 people
- Menan: 719 people
- Mud Lake: 364 people
- Rigby: 5,757 people
- Ririe: 711 people
- Roberts: 572 people
Jerome County
- Eden: 406 people
- Hazelton: 827 people
- Jerome: 13,731 people
Kootenai County
- Athol: 738 people
- Coeur d'Alene: 58,179 people
- Dalton Gardens: 2,496 people
- Fernan Lake Village: 163 people
- Harrison: 222 people
- Hauser: 915 people
- Hayden: 17,363 people
- Hayden Lake: 668 people
- Huetter: 105 people
- Post Falls: 46,715 people
- Rathdrum: 13,227 people
- Spirit Lake: 2,485 people
- State Line: 38 people
- Worley: 248 people
Latah County
- Bovill: 195 people
- Deary: 531 people
- Genesee: 1,094 people
- Juliaetta: 644 people
- Kendrick: 300 people
- Moscow: 26,721 people
- Onaway: 218 people
- Potlatch: 797 people
- Troy: 925 people
Lemhi County
- Leadore: 99 people
- Salmon: 3,286 people
Lewis County
- Craigmont: 469 people
- Kamiah: 1,134 people
- Nezperce: 471 people
- Reubens: 52 people
- Winchester: 363 people
Lincoln County
- Dietrich: 313 people
- Richfield: 483 people
- Shoshone: 1,767 people
Madison County
- Rexburg: 40,334 people
- Sugar City: 2,476 people
Minidoka County
Nez Perce County
Oneida County
- Malad City: 2,338 people
Owyhee County
Payette County
- Fruitland: 7,213 people
- New Plymouth: 1,629 people
- Payette: 8,813 people
Power County
- American Falls: 4,785 people
- Rockland: 257 people
Shoshone County
- Kellogg: 2,456 people
- Mullan: 663 people
- Osburn: 1,673 people
- Pinehurst: 1,780 people
- Smelterville: 813 people
- Wallace: 844 people
- Wardner: 205 people
Teton County
Twin Falls County
- Buhl: 4,801 people
- Castleford: 230 people
- Filer: 3,026 people
- Hansen: 1,109 people
- Hollister: 265 people
- Kimberly: 5,798 people
- Murtaugh: 124 people
- Twin Falls: 56,216 people
Valley County
Washington County
- Cambridge: 357 people
- Midvale: 213 people
- Weiser: 6,249 people
Other states: Oregon, Washington, Montana. See all four states.
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Population figures are U.S. Census Bureau estimates for July 1, 2025. Distances are straight-line miles between place center points, so road distances are longer. Counts of nearby places include incorporated cities and towns in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Montana only.