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Insurance agencies in Bear Lake County, ID
How Bear Lake County, ID compares with other counties and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 6
- 1 chain location (17%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $6.1M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,676 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1M
- 19% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 26.3
- 69% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 6,727
- +5.7% since 2020
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What this means
At $2,676 per household (37% above the U.S. average), households in Bear Lake County spend about $6.1M a year on vehicle insurance. That is about $1M of household spending for each agency on map listings, 19% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
There are 6 insurance agencies on map listings in Bear Lake County as of September 2026. One of them (17%) is a chain location, against 21% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 26.3, 69% above the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Bear Lake County in 2023. That is one for every 759 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in Bear Lake County from 2020 to 2025 at +5.7%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Bear Lake County compares
The same measures for Idaho and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Bear Lake County | Idaho | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 26.3 | 17.2 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $1M | $1.3M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 759 | 756 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.5% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.7% | +9.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,676 | $2,175 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $75,260 | $77,800 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 56 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 3
- Employees, 2023
- 6
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $181K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 61 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Bear Lake County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Bear Lake County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 6,727+5.7% since 2020
- Households
- 2,278
- Median age
- 40.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 90%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.7
- Land area
- 976 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 7
- Median household income
- $75,260
- Average household income
- $88,185
- Median home value
- $275,000
- Jobs located here
- 1,608
- Daytime population
- 5,665Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Idaho
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jerome County, ID | 73 | 12 | 14.5 | $1.7M | +8.6% | #398 of 2,272 |
| 2Benewah County, ID | 71 | 5 | 12.3 | $1.8M | +9.7% | #444 of 2,272 |
| 3Fremont County, ID | 69 | 5 | 10.7 | $2.3M | +5.9% | #494 of 2,272 |
| 4Boundary County, ID | 69 | 6 | 11.9 | $2M | +15.3% | #500 of 2,272 |
| 5Canyon County, ID | 65 | 107 | 12.4 | $1.9M | +18.1% | #620 of 2,272 |
| 6Elmore County, ID | 64 | 11 | 9.9 | $2.1M | +2.8% | #650 of 2,272 |
| 7Valley County, ID | 64 | 6 | 13.9 | $1.5M | +8.4% | #673 of 2,272 |
| 8Latah County, ID | 63 | 17 | 10.4 | $1.9M | +5.6% | #690 of 2,272 |
| 9Gem County, ID | 58 | 14 | 18.3 | $1.3M | +13.0% | #857 of 2,272 |
| 10Blaine County, ID | 57 | 11 | 10.6 | $2.1M | +4.8% | #863 of 2,272 |
| Bear Lake County, ID | Not scored | 6 | 26.3 | $1M | +5.7% |
Other business types in Bear Lake County
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Bear Lake County, ID?
As of September 2026, map listings count 6 insurance agencies in Bear Lake County. One of them (17%) is a chain location. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Bear Lake County, ID spend on vehicle insurance?
About $6.1M a year, or $2,676 per household. That is 37% above the U.S. average (an index of 137, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $1M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,278 households in Bear Lake County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Bear Lake County, ID compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Bear Lake County has 26.3 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 69% above the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $1M, 19% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Bear Lake County would have about 5, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 759 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Bear Lake County, ID growing?
Population estimates put Bear Lake County at 6,727 people in 2025, up 5.7% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 2,278 households. Median household income in Bear Lake County is $75,260, 7% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
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