Mount Pleasant, Utah.
Typical home $394,237 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,250 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,027 +3%
- $383,210$394,237 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,474 +24%
- $318,763$394,237 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 Pleasant$2,069
- 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 Mount Pleasant, UT rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah
Mount Pleasant is a city of 3,655 people in Sanpete County. Half its households earn more than $68,920 a year and half less, against $70,083 across Sanpete County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Sanpete County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Pleasant is a small city in Sanpete County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. The population is younger than in much of the country, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and government also employing many. Across Sanpete County, some of the largest workplaces are Snow College, Pitman Farms' turkey processing plant in Moroni, and Walmart. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the usual run, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has stayed close to where it stood a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The Moroni Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Manti–La Sal National Forest, a protected area, and Palisade State Park, another protected area, are each a longer drive away. Electric Lake and Scofield Reservoir also lie a longer drive away, for anyone who likes to be near the water.
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- 1,217households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sanpete County had 9,524 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 52°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moroni weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sanpete County
- Snow CollegeUniversity or college660
- Pitman Farms, Moroni Turkey ProcessingMeat canning, poultry, manufacturing584
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters224
- Central Utah TelephoneInternet service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure172
- Christensen ArmsFirearms, small, manufacturing169
- Sanpete Valley HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals158
- Gunnison Valley HospitalCritical access hospital142FTE
- Mission at Community Living and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities112
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,538 people in all across the county; Mount Pleasant has one 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Mount Pleasant’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 Sanpete County.
Mount Pleasant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Pleasant$394,237
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mount Pleasant 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 Pleasant24.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Pleasant43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Pleasant7
Zip codes with a Mount Pleasant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Pleasant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.