Mount Olympus, Utah.
Typical home $1,135,294 (+7.9% in a year). Salt Lake City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,471 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $83,074 +8%
- $1,052,219$1,135,294 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $206,371 +22%
- $928,923$1,135,294 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.
- Mount Olympus$5,959
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Mount Olympus, UT rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Olympus, Salt Lake County, Utah
The Census does not count Mount Olympus on its own, so the figures here are Salt Lake County's. Half the county's households earn more than $97,494 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Salt Lake County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Salt Lake County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Olympus is a residential community in Salt Lake County, Utah, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Residents tend to be younger on the whole than in many parts of the country, and many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, while summers are hot, and home prices here are high.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Shops and manufacturing also employ a share of people here. Jobs in Salt Lake County have grown over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. A fair number of residents work from home, and commutes are fairly brief.
Things to do. Temple Square, a garden, is a short drive away and is one of the best-known spots in the area. Hogle Zoo, also a short drive away, is a good option for a day out with family. For winter outings, Deer Valley, a ski area, is a longer drive away.
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- 426,245households
- 34.0median age
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What people in Salt Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Salt Lake County had 808,479 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salt Lake Triad Ctr weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Salt Lake County
- University of UtahUniversity or college16,385
- U of U Hospitals & ClinicsGeneral hospital12,298FTE
- Salt Lake CountyGeneral services departments, government8,613
- Western Governors UniversityUniversity or college8,420
- Bodell Construction an Aecon CompanyIndustrial building construction, general contractors6,260
- Salt Lake CountyRecreational sports club facilities4,565
- Sutter HealthHealthcare3,932
- Intermountain Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,720FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,130 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 202,386 people in all. 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Salt Lake County, 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 Salt Lake County and the Salt Lake City, UT metro.
Mount Olympus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Olympus$1,135,294
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Mount Olympus 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.
- Mount Olympus40.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Olympus26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Olympus9
Zip codes with a Mount Olympus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Olympus — 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.