Delta, Utah.
Typical home $345,060 (+2.6% in a year). Provo-Orem, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,118 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,727 +3%
- $336,333$345,060 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,066 +36%
- $253,994$345,060 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.
- Delta$1,811
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Delta, UT rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delta, Millard County, Utah
Delta is a city of 3,622 people in Millard County. Half its households earn more than $78,506 a year and half less, against $73,639 across Millard County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Millard County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delta is a small city in Millard County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and the population is young for a small town, with many families. Winters are cold and snowy, summers get hot, and the air is dry, with little rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with shops, restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Across Millard County, some of the largest workplaces are Great Lakes Cheese of Utah, Cal-Maine Foods-Delta Complex 1 and Delta Community Hospital. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment has edged up from a year earlier.
Things to do. Fort Deseret, an old fort, is a short drive away and makes an easy outing. Farther afield, Yuba State Park is a protected area, and the Beaver River and the Utah Territorial Statehouse are each a longer drive away, one a river and the other a protected historic site.
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- 1,218households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Millard County had 5,407 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 57°. About 25 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delta weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Millard County
- Sunrise EngineeringFlood control project construction494
- Great Lakes Cheese of UtahCheese merchant wholesalers372
- TIC - The Industrial CompanyPower plant construction246
- Cal-Maine Foods-Delta Complex 1Chicken egg production85
- Delta Community HospitalCritical access hospital60FTE
- Fillmore Community HospitalCritical access hospital53FTE
- Cal-Maine Foods-Delta Complex 2Chicken egg production33
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,426 people in all across the county; Delta 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delta’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 Millard County and the Provo-Orem, UT metro.
Delta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delta$345,060
- 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 Delta 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.
- Delta31.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delta31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delta8
Zip codes with a Delta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.