Blanding, Utah.
Typical home $330,355 (+6.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,000 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,732 +6%
- $311,623$330,355 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,772 +22%
- $271,583$330,355 since Sep 2021
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.
- Blanding$1,734
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Blanding, UT rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blanding, San Juan County, Utah
Blanding is a city of 3,394 people in San Juan County. Half its households earn more than $71,797 a year and half less, against $64,481 across San Juan County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in San Juan County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blanding is a small city in San Juan County, in the southeastern corner of Utah. It is a young town, with residents who are younger than in most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run above the county's, though a fair number of residents live below the poverty line, and a typical home is valued well above what the same money would have bought a generation ago in many parts of rural America.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, and in the building trades. Across San Juan County, some of the largest workplaces are Blue Mountain Hospital, the San Juan Health Services District and Cascades Healthcare. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago, and the drive to work is short, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum is in or beside town and is the easiest first stop. A longer drive away are Hovenweep National Monument, an archaeological site, and Natural Bridges National Monument, a protected area. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers are hot, so spring and fall are the gentler seasons for getting out.
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- 1,039households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Juan County had 4,780 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 62°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blanding weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Juan County
- Blue Mountain HospitalCritical access hospital98FTE
- San Juan Health Services DistrictCritical access hospital96FTE
- AramarkFood service contractors87
- Cascades HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities60
- City of MonticelloCity and town managers' offices42
- American Medical Response22
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 211 people in all across the county; Blanding has one of its own. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blanding’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 San Juan County.
Blanding home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blanding$330,355
- 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.
- Blanding14
Zip codes with a Blanding address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blanding — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.