Maeser, Utah.
Typical home $381,429 (+3.1% in a year). Vernal, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,138 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,302 +3%
- $370,127$381,429 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $112,273 +42%
- $269,157$381,429 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.
- Maeser$2,002
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Maeser, UT rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maeser, Uintah County, Utah
Maeser, in Uintah County, had 4,081 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $83,813 a year and half less, against $73,746 across Uintah County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Uintah County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in other services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maeser is a community in Uintah County, in the Uinta Basin, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm in July and the year stays fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in professional and business services, along with a good number in other services. The biggest workplaces across Uintah County include Walmart, Ashley Regional Medical Center and Smiths Food And Drug. Unemployment has stayed steady over the past year, the county has added jobs, and a typical commute is fairly short.
Things to do. Steinaker State Park is a short drive away, and the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum is close by as well. The Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic Byway runs in or beside town, a tourist attraction in its own right. For a longer outing, the White River is a longer drive away.
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- 1,530households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Uintah County had 15,608 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 57°. About 20 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vernal weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Uintah County
- B HHighway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation1,277
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters399
- Ashley Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital207FTE
- BHSOil and gas field services on a contract basis172
- Smiths Food And DrugSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores123
- Basin WesternGeneral freight trucking, local109
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter109
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior76
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,899 people in all across the county; Maeser has none 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maeser’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Uintah County and the Vernal, UT metro.
Maeser home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maeser$381,429
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Maeser15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Maeser address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maeser — 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.