Parowan, Utah.
Typical home $407,713 (+3.1% in a year). Cedar City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,249 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,156 +3%
- $395,557$407,713 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,991 +19%
- $342,722$407,713 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.
- Parowan$2,140
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Parowan, UT rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parowan, Iron County, Utah
Parowan is a city of 2,996 people in Iron County. Half its households earn more than $53,145 a year and half less, against $66,247 across Iron County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Iron County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iron County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parowan is a small city in Iron County, Utah, with a population that has stayed modest. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what the town's incomes might suggest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than many might expect. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while July brings mild summer highs rather than intense heat.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Iron County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern Utah University, Walmart and Cedar City Hospital. Unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate one, longer than a quick hop across town.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Parowan Meetinghouse and the Jesse N. Smith House are both museums, good for a slow afternoon with local history. A short drive away is Little Salt Lake, and a longer drive brings you to Cedar Breaks National Monument, a protected area that suits a day trip. Brian Head Ski Resort, also a longer drive, is the nearest ski area on the list.
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- 1,096households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Iron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iron County had 25,889 jobs in 2025, 4.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 71° and lows near 42°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brian Head weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iron County
- Southern Utah UniversityUniversity or college1,389
- Building Zone IndustriesErecting structural steel794
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters607
- Cedar City HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals523
- DW Chrysalis Holdings, LLCResidential intellectual and developmental disability facilities504
- Cedar City HospitalGeneral hospital357FTE
- Mountain Capital PartnersSki lodges and resorts with accommodations229
- Genpak Utah WestFood containers, polystyrene foam, manufacturing204
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,338 people in all across the county; Parowan has none 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parowan’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 Iron County and the Cedar City, UT metro.
Parowan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parowan$407,713
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Parowan 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.
- Parowan18.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parowan39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Parowan9
Zip codes with a Parowan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parowan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.