Brian Head, Utah.
Typical home $232,343 (-6.5% in a year). Cedar City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$730 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,047 -6%
- $248,390$232,343 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,153 +13%
- $206,190$232,343 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.
- Brian Head$1,220
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Brian Head, UT fell 6.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brian Head, Iron County, Utah
Brian Head is a town of 151 people in Iron County. Unemployment in Iron County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iron County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brian Head is a very small mountain town in Iron County, Utah, with a year-round population that is tiny compared with most places people think of as towns. Winters here are long and cold, with December the coldest month and daytime highs staying below freezing. Summers are mild and cool, with July the warmest month, and the town's character shifts noticeably between the ski season and the rest of the year.
Work. Residents of Brian Head work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in town are lodging and resort businesses, among them Mountain Capital Partners, BHBW Lodging and DRI Cedar Breaks Lodge and SPA. Across Iron County, unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Brian Head Ski Resort is a ski area in or beside town, which makes winter the busiest season for visitors. Cedar Breaks National Monument is a protected area a short drive away, and its visitor center, a museum, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Navajo Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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What people in Iron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iron County had 25,889 jobs in 2025, 4.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 71° and lows near 42°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brian Head weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brian Head
- Mountain Capital PartnersSki lodges and resorts with accommodations229
- BHBW LodgingHotels43
- Hilton Grand Vacation Inc.23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 295 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brian Head’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 Iron County and the Cedar City, UT metro.
Brian Head home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brian Head$232,343
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Brian Head listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Brian Head16.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brian Head122
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brian Head14
Zip codes with a Brian Head address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brian Head — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.