Oquirrh, Utah.
Typical home $491,720 (-0.4% in a year). Salt Lake City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,387 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,799 -0%
- $493,519$491,720 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,950 +10%
- $445,770$491,720 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.
- Oquirrh$2,581
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Oquirrh, UT fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oquirrh, Salt Lake County, Utah
The Census does not count Oquirrh 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oquirrh sits in Salt Lake County, in the north-central part of Utah, where the valley meets the mountains. Across the county, the typical resident is fairly young, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a sizable share are rented. Home values here are high, and incomes and poverty rates are close to the county's overall picture. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are hot, and the area is fairly dry for most of the year.
Work. Across Salt Lake County, unemployment is low and was slightly lower this past summer than the year before. Jobs grew a little over the last year, and many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, retail, or manufacturing. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number of people work from home. Commutes for most residents are fairly brief.
Things to do. Temple Square is a garden in the middle of the city, a short drive away, and it is one of the best known sights in the area. The Church History Museum, also a short drive away, offers a look at the region's past. Hogle Zoo is a short drive away and suits a relaxed day out with the family. For a longer trip, Deer Valley is a ski area a longer drive away, with snow for much of the winter.
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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.
Oquirrh home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oquirrh$491,720
- 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.
- Oquirrh14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oquirrh7
Zip codes with a Oquirrh address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oquirrh — 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.