Mendon, Utah.
Typical home $660,294 (+3.5% in a year). Logan, UT-ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,055 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,356 +4%
- $637,939$660,294 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $129,685 +24%
- $530,609$660,294 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.
- Mendon$3,466
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Mendon, UT rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mendon, Cache County, Utah
Mendon is a city of 1,339 people in Cache County. Half its households earn more than $148,261 a year and half less, against $81,665 across Cache County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Cache County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mendon is a small city in Cache County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the town is quiet and residential in feel.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Cache County, some of the biggest workplaces are Utah State University, Logan Regional Hospital and Schreiber Foods. Commutes are fairly ordinary in length, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Hyrum State Park, a protected area with a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is the Wasatch–Cache National Forest for time outdoors. In town for an evening, the Ellen Eccles Theatre and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art are both a short drive off. Winters are cold and snowy, while summers turn warm, so the seasons shape what you do outside.
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- 458households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cache County had 63,788 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 54°. About 52 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Logan Southwest Experiment Farm weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cache County
- Utah State UniversityUniversity or college3,945
- JBSBeef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants1,770
- Schreiber FoodsProcessed cheeses manufacturing837
- Logan Regional HospitalGeneral hospital787FTE
- Hyclone LaboratoriesCulture media manufacturing594
- Pepperidge Farm RichmondBakery products, dry, manufacturing554
- iFITAthletic goods manufacturing465
- Bridgerland Technical CollegeCareer school417
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,322 people in all across the county; Mendon has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mendon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Cache County and the Logan, UT-ID metro.
Mendon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mendon$660,294
- 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.
- Mendon9
Zip codes with a Mendon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mendon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.