Amalga, Utah.
Typical home $550,784 (+9.9% in a year). Logan, UT-ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,147 (+66%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $49,429 +10%
- $501,355$550,784 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Amalga$2,891
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Amalga, UT rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amalga, Cache County, Utah
Amalga is a town of 482 people in Cache County. Half its households earn more than $97,679 a year and half less, against $81,665 across Cache County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cache County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cache County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Amalga is a very small town in Cache County, Utah, with incomes above the county's and no one living below the poverty line. Typical home values are high, so buying in is a real commitment. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot in July, while the year brings only modest rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also common. Across Cache County, some of the largest workplaces are Utah State University, Logan Regional Hospital and Schreiber Foods. A typical commute is a moderate drive rather than a long haul, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. Maverik Stadium, home to Utah State's teams, is a short drive away, as are the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art and the Ellen Eccles Theatre. For the outdoors, Cutler Reservoir is a short drive away, while Tony Grove Lake and Beaver Mountain ski area are a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cache County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cache County had 63,788 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 51°. About 49 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Trenton weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cache County
- Utah State UniversityUniversity or college3,945
- JBSBeef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants1,770
- Schreiber FoodsProcessed cheeses manufacturing837
- Logan Regional HospitalGeneral hospital787FTE
- Hyclone LaboratoriesCulture media manufacturing594
- Pepperidge Farm RichmondBakery products, dry, manufacturing554
- iFITAthletic goods manufacturing465
- Bridgerland Technical CollegeCareer school417
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,322 people in all across the county; Amalga has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Amalga’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Cache County and the Logan, UT-ID metro.
Amalga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amalga$550,784
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Amalga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amalga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.