Cost of Living in Hailey
Hailey runs genuinely expensive by national standards, but meaningfully more affordable than neighboring Ketchum, with a genuinely low Blaine County property tax rate.
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Learn moreHousing costs run meaningfully below Ketchum's own figures
Hailey's typical Zillow home value ran $780,999 (down 1.0% YoY), with separately cited figures ranging $749K-$895K depending on measurement date and metric -- consistently, meaningfully below Ketchum's own $1,556,144 typical value.
No local-option resort-city sales tax
Unlike Ketchum and Sun Valley, Hailey is not one of Idaho's small, tourism-dependent 'resort cities' eligible for a voter-approved local-option sales tax add-on -- Hailey's combined rate is simply Idaho's flat 6% state rate.
A genuinely low property tax rate
Blaine County's broader median effective property tax rate ran 0.31% -- among the lowest of any market in this Idaho batch, genuinely below Ketchum's own slightly higher city-specific 0.34% figure.
Idaho's flat, low state income tax
Idaho's flat 5.3% state income tax applies statewide, the same in Hailey as in Ketchum or anywhere else in Idaho.
Key takeaways
- Hailey's housing runs genuinely, meaningfully more affordable than Ketchum's own comparable figures.
- Hailey pays Idaho's flat 6% state sales tax with no local resort-city add-on, unlike Ketchum.
- Blaine County's property tax rate runs genuinely low (0.31% countywide median), among the lowest in this Idaho batch.
- Idaho's flat 5.3% state income tax applies statewide.
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