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Escalante, Utah.

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What it costs per month · Escalante $2,797/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,525 (+120%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Utah $2,797 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Utah$2,797
  • United States$1,922

Living in Escalante, Garfield County, Utah

Escalante is a city of 786 people in Garfield County. Unemployment in Garfield County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Garfield County work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.

People 786 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Escalante for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.8% Garfield County, August 2026; 4.7% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Escalante for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Escalante is a very small town in the high desert of southern Utah, in Garfield County. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and snow on the ground for part of the season, while summers turn hot by July. Precipitation is light overall, so the country around town is dry for most of the year.

Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Garfield County, some of the largest workplaces are THE Lodge at Bryce Canyon, Garfield Memorial Hospital and the National Park Service. Household incomes in the county sit below the national picture, and the county has added jobs over the past year.

Things to do. Escalante Petrified Forest State Park is in or beside town, and the Escalante River and the Box-Death Hollow Wilderness are each a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Calf Creek Falls, a waterfall, and to Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, a large protected area of canyons and slickrock.

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What people in Garfield County work in

  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment32%
  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Government7%
  • Farming, forestry and mining7%
  • Building trades5%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garfield County had 2,596 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 43° and 19°; warmest in July, 92° and 57° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J F M A M J J 92° 57° A S O N D 43° 19°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 43° and 19°; warmest in July, 92° and 57° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J F M A M J J 92° 57° A S O N D 43° 19°

Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 57°. About 26 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Escalante weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Garfield County

  1. AramarkHotels and motels136
  2. Garfield Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital76FTE
  3. National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior75
  4. Bryce Canyon Hotel Partner'sAuto courts, lodging32
  5. Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture24

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 339 people in all across the county; Escalante 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

  1. LightningVery high
  2. Heat wavesVery high
  3. Winter weatherVery high
  4. Inland floodingVery high
  5. LandslidesRelatively high
  6. WildfireRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Escalante’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 Garfield County.

Escalante home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Escalante address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Escalante — 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.