Boise, ID: A Top Local Market to Watch in 2027
The Boise metropolitan area continues to attract new residents in a big way and from 2020 to 2025 its population grew by 94,049 residents and now stands at 964.243. While Boise is a Top 25 single-family housing market when measured by single-family permits pulled year-to-date through June, it’s only up +1.3% YOY over that time period. The metro’s multi-family building permits declined by -37.5% YOY through June to 480 permits.
The big construction news in Boise continues to be the $15 billion Micron is investing in a number of facilities in the Boise area, including a second fab facility and a $10-billion research lab. Other big Boise projects: Meta’s $800-million-plus Kuna data center now underway; a $700-million airport expansion project; the $1-billion Gemstone Technology Park being developed by Diode Ventures; and the $1.1-billion St. Lukes Hospital project in downtown Boise, which includes a 850,000-sq-ft, nine-story hospital tower.
ESTIMATED ELECTRICAL SALES
2Q 2026 Total Sales Estimate: $628.1 million
2026 Electrical Contractor Est. ($ millions): $418.3 million
2026 Estimated Industrial Sales: $84.2 million
POPULATION GROWTH
2025 Population Estimate: 864,243
2020-2025 Population # Change: 94,049
2020-2025 Population % Change: 12.2%
New Residents per day: 43
BUILDING PERMITS
June 2026 - Single-family (SF) permits: 4,350 permits
# Change SF YOY: 55 permits
% Change SF YOY: 1.3%
June 2026 -Multi-family (MF) permits: 480 permits
# Change MF YOY: (288) permits
% Change MF YOY: -37.5%
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Sources of market data: Local market data collected by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and county. Sales estimates developed with sales-per-employee multipliers from Electrical Wholesaling’s Market Planning Guide ($83572 per electrical contractor employee and $2,7289 per industrial employee) and employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Building permit and population data downloaded from U.S. Census Bureau website.
About the Author
Jim Lucy
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Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.
He recently launched a new subscription-based data product for Electrical Marketing that offers electrical sales potential estimates and related market data for more than 300 metropolitan areas, and in 1999 he published his first book, “The Electrical Marketer’s Survival Guide” for electrical industry executives looking for an overview of key market trends.
While managing Electrical Wholesaling’s editorial operations, Jim and the publication’s staff won several Jesse H. Neal awards for editorial excellence, the highest honor in the business press, and numerous national and regional awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. He has a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J. (now Rowan University).