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Hailey
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Hailey
Total population
9,665
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Hailey is a city in and the county seat of Blaine County, in the Wood River Valley of the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho. The population was 9,161 at the 2020 census, up from 7,960 in 2010. Hailey is the site of Friedman Memorial Airport (SUN), the airport for the resort area of Sun Valley/Ketchum, 12 miles (19 km) north. The town of Bellevue is a few miles south. From 1882 to 1895, Hailey was the county seat of now-defunct Alturas County.
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Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Hailey has a continental Mediterranean climate (Köppen Dsb). Winters are cold and snowy: there are an average of forty-four days each year which fail to top , whilst 199 nights fall below freezing and nineteen nights between November and March will fall to or below . Spring warms up slowly, with snow falling as late as May. Summer is hot during the day, but cools off into the 40s or 50s at night. Highs reach on only 15 days per year, and only July has made it to . Freezing nights can happen any time of the year, even in July and August. There is little rain, coming only as isolated showers or storms a few times per month. Most days are sunny and this is the driest part of the year. Fall starts warm in September and then quickly cools off. Snow has fallen in September, but usually holds off until October. Early fall is dry and sunny like summer. Days in the 70s can happen well into October, but has been recorded in November. The lowest temperature recorded was on January 12, 1963 and the record high is on July 19, 1953. Precipitation falls primarily as snow in winter and as thunderstorms in late spring. The rest of the year is mostly dry.
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Health (adults)
Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).
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Schools
Largest nearby schools
- WOOD RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · HAILEY · 986 students · 14.9:1 ratio
- WOOD RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · HAILEY · 568 students · 12.1:1 ratio
- ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · HAILEY · 446 students · 12.7:1 ratio
- HAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · HAILEY · 295 students · 10.5:1 ratio
- BELLEVUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · BELLEVUE · 211 students · 10.6:1 ratio
- SYRINGA MOUNTAIN CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · HAILEY · 93 students · 11.6:1 ratio
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · HAILEY · 51 students · 10.2:1 ratio
Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).
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Nearby places in Idaho
- Bellevue3.8 mi away · pop. 2,588
- Sun Valley12 mi away · pop. 1,460
- Ketchum12.7 mi away
- Gannett12.9 mi away
- Carey22.7 mi away · pop. 1,196
- Fairfield27.6 mi away
- Richfield32.7 mi away
- Lost River35.4 mi away · pop. 55
- Shoshone40.2 mi away
- Dietrich41.5 mi away · pop. 421
- Mackay44 mi away · pop. 602
- Gooding44.9 mi away · pop. 3,778
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • NCES via Urban Institute Education Data Portal
- • CDC PLACES
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library