Henefer, Utah.
Typical home $604,313 (+4.9% in a year). Heber, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,044 (+49%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $27,980 +5%
- $576,333$604,313 since Sep 2025
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.
- Henefer$3,172
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Henefer, UT rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henefer, Summit County, Utah
Henefer is a town of 838 people in Summit County. Half its households earn more than $93,654 a year and half less, against $138,114 across Summit County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Summit County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Summit County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henefer is a small town in Summit County, home to a modest number of residents. Household incomes here run well below the county's, though no one in town is counted as living below the poverty line. A typical home costs more than many Americans would expect to pay, and winters are cold and snowy, with highs only a little above freezing in January and plenty of snow through the season. Summers are warm, with July the hottest month, and the year brings only a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. People who live in Henefer work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in banks, insurance and property. Unemployment across Summit County is low and has edged down over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Some of the biggest workplaces across the county are Deer Valley Resort Company, Montage Deer Valley and Park City Hospital. A fair number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. East Canyon State Park and Echo State Park are a short drive away, both protected areas good for a day outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to ski areas such as Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resort, which suit the snowy winters. Rockport Reservoir is another water destination a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Summit County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Summit County had 32,506 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 51°. About 72 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Echo Dam weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Summit County
- Deer Valley Resort CompanySki resorts with accommodations1,576
- VR-CPC HoldingsAlpine skiing facilities without accomodations912
- Montage Deer ValleyHotels499
- Park City HospitalGeneral hospital325FTE
- Sundance InstituteBroadway theaters324
- The Lodge At Blue Sky, Auberge CollectionHotels, resort, without casinos206
- Flare ConstructionCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction192
- Triumph Geared SolutionsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing185
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,982 people in all across the county; Henefer 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Henefer’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 Summit County and the Heber, UT metro.
Henefer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henefer$604,313
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Henefer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henefer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.