Helper, Utah.
Typical home $286,517 (+3.8% in a year). Price, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$989 (+192%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,503 +4%
- $276,014$286,517 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,535 +52%
- $187,982$286,517 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.
- Helper$1,504
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Helper, UT rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Helper, Carbon County, Utah
Helper is a city of 2,112 people in Carbon County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Carbon County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Helper is a small city with an older population than the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common here than people might expect for a town of this size, and typical home values sit within reach of many buyers. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, while the year brings little rain or melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Carbon County, the largest workplaces include Intermountain Electronics, Walmart and Castleview Hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up. Many adults hold a four-year degree, though fewer than in most places, and the usual trip to work is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Western Mining and Railroad Museum is in or beside town and tells the story of the area's mining and railroad past. A short drive away, the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum is another museum worth a visit. For time outdoors, Scofield Reservoir is a longer drive away and offers a reservoir setting.
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- 1,177households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carbon County had 8,724 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 60°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Price Carbon County Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carbon County
- Intermountain ElectronicsDistribution transformers, electric, manufacturing776
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters297
- Castleview HospitalGeneral hospital272FTE
- DW Chrysalis Holdings, LLCResidential intellectual and developmental disability facilities135
- Joy Global Underground MiningMining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services105
- Pinnacle Nursing & RehabSkilled nursing facilities100
- Bodec main branchElectrical contractors96
- Smiths Food And DrugSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores91
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,396 people in all across the county; Helper has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Helper’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Carbon County and the Price, UT metro.
Helper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Helper$286,517
- 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 4 Helper 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.
- Helper26.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Helper26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Helper5
Zip codes with a Helper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Helper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.