Big Water, Utah.
Typical home $266,231 (+3.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$43 (+3%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $9,516 +4%
- $256,715$266,231 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.
- Big Water$1,397
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Big Water, UT rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Water, Kane County, Utah
Big Water is a town of 449 people in Kane County. Unemployment in Kane County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kane County work in schools and health care, then other services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Big Water is a very small town in southern Utah, close to the Arizona line, with a population that makes it one of the smaller places in Kane County. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with highs that stay well below comfortable and nights that fall to a hard freeze, while summers turn hot. Very little rain or snow falls across the year, so this is dry desert country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in shops, restaurants, hotels and other services. Across Kane County, some of the largest workplaces are Kane County Hospital, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. Getting to work takes a fairly short drive, and the county has been adding jobs, with unemployment staying low.
Things to do. Wahweap Creek is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Powell, a large reservoir, and to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a protected area around it. Also a longer drive away, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument is a protected area of canyon and plateau country.
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- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Kane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kane County had 4,205 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Water weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kane County
- Kane County HospitalCritical access hospital91FTE
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior34
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior21
Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Big Water’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Kane County.
Big Water home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Water$266,231
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Big Water13
Zip codes with a Big Water address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Water — 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.