Moab, Utah.
Typical home $576,114 (-2.6% in a year), asking rent $2,019 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,590 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,474 -3%
- $591,587$576,114 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,466 +9%
- $526,648$576,114 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.
- Moab$3,024
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Moab, UT fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moab, Grand County, Utah
Moab is a city of 5,366 people in Grand County. Half its households earn more than $61,667 a year and half less, against $67,106 across Grand County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Grand County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moab is a small city in Grand County, Utah, with a younger population than many American towns. Incomes in town run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect, while homes are mostly lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is common among adults, and getting to work takes very little time for the typical resident.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Moab are Moab Regional Hospital, King Soopers and the National Park Service. Across the county, there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment is low and little changed from a year ago.
Things to do. Arches National Park is the best known place nearby, a national park a longer drive away. Dead Horse Point State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area, and the Courthouse Wash Pictographs are an archaeological site just a short drive away. Winters are cold and a little snowy, summers are very hot, and the air is dry in the sense that rain and melted snow are scarce through the year.
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- 2,452households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grand County had 6,838 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 99° and lows near 66°. About 9 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moab weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Moab
- Moab Regional HospitalCritical access hospital228FTE
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores138
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior129
- Western States Lodging and ManagementHotel management services44
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior43
- Critical Nurse StaffingMedical39
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior33
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 221 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moab’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 Grand County.
Moab home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moab$576,114
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Moab 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.
- Moab17.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Moab78
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Moab14
Zip codes with a Moab address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moab — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.