Brigham City, Utah.
Typical home $407,249 (+1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,290 . Ogden-Clearfield, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,196 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,148 +2%
- $401,101$407,249 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,011 +14%
- $356,238$407,249 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.
- Brigham City$2,138
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Brigham City, UT rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah
Brigham City is a city of 19,650 people in Box Elder County. Half its households earn more than $71,308 a year and half less, against $84,550 across Box Elder County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Box Elder County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brigham City is a small city whose residents are younger on the whole than in many older towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here run below the county's, and a typical home costs a good deal to buy, while rents are more modest. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn hot, with only a little rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in town are Nucor Buildings Group West, which makes prefabricated metal buildings, Steves and Sons, a door manufacturer, and Associated Brigham Contractors, a concrete contractor. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and so does the Brigham City Museum-Gallery. The Malad River is a short drive away. For a longer day out, Snowbasin, a ski area, and Wasatch–Cache National Forest are a longer drive away.
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- 6,840households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Box Elder County had 24,727 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 58°. About 38 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brigham City Waste Plt weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brigham City
- Associated Brigham ContractorsFooting and foundation concrete contractors690
- Whitaker Construction CoSewer main, pipe and connection, construction649
- Nucor Buildings Group WestPrefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing380
- Steves and SonsDoor manufacturing285
- Kent's Market - Brigham CityGrocery stores175
- Smiths Food And DrugSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores148
- Brigham City Community HospitalGeneral hospital135FTE
- Maple Springs Management - Brigham CityAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities135
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,108 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brigham City’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 Box Elder County and the Ogden-Clearfield, UT metro.
Brigham City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brigham City$407,249
- 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 3 Brigham City listings, and the typical home goes pending in 28 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Brigham City35.85%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brigham City28
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brigham City77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brigham City28
Zip codes with a Brigham City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brigham City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.