Milford, Utah.
Typical home $248,345 (+11.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$549 (+73%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $24,966 +11%
- $223,378$248,345 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.
- Milford$1,303
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Milford, UT rose 11.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milford, Beaver County, Utah
Milford is a city of 1,431 people in Beaver County. Half its households earn more than $82,368 a year and half less, against $79,360 across Beaver County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Beaver County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 13.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milford is a small city in Beaver County, Utah, and the kind of place where most people know one another by sight. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and homes cost less than the national picture might lead you to expect. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and nights well below it, summers turn hot in July, and the year brings little rain or snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, farming, forestry and mining, and manufacturing. Across Beaver County, the largest workplaces include Beaver Valley Hospital, Dairy Farmers of America and Atkore Plastic Pipe. Unemployment is no higher than it was a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year. A small share of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Cove Fort is a historic fort a longer drive away, and Minersville Reservoir is a reservoir for time near the water, also a longer drive away. The Beaver Opera House is a theatre in the county seat, again a longer drive away. Each of these means setting aside a good part of a day.
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- 27%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beaver County had 3,069 jobs in 2025, 13.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 56°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milford weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Beaver County
- Beaver Valley HospitalCritical access hospital111FTE
- Dairy Farmers of America74
- Atkore Plastic PipePipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing54
- Milford Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital39FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture34
- Dairy Farmers of America25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 153 people in all across the county; Milford 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milford’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Beaver County.
Milford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milford$248,345
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Milford 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.
- Milford16.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milford21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Milford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.