Price, Utah.
Typical home $308,601 (+2.4% in a year). Price, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$976 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,188 +2%
- $301,413$308,601 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,944 +37%
- $225,658$308,601 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.
- Price$1,620
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Price, UT rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Price, Carbon County, Utah
Price is a city of 8,216 people in Carbon County. Half its households earn more than $53,203 a year and half less, against $58,377 across Carbon County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Carbon County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Price is the largest town in Carbon County, a small city in eastern Utah where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is short, so most errands and trips to work are a matter of a few minutes. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot in July. The year brings little rain and melted snow, which fits the dry, open country around town.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Price are Castleview Hospital, Walmart and Smiths Food And Drug. Unemployment in Carbon County is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year. Few people work from home.
Things to do. The USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum is in or beside town, and the Western Mining and Railroad Museum is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Scofield Reservoir is a longer drive away and offers a reservoir setting, and Huntington State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area. Those who like to be near water can add the Price River to the list, though that too takes a longer drive.
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- 3,283households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carbon County had 8,724 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 60°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Price Carbon County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Price
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters297
- Castleview HospitalGeneral hospital272FTE
- DW Chrysalis Holdings, LLCResidential intellectual and developmental disability facilities135
- Bodec main branchElectrical contractors96
- Smiths Food And DrugSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores91
- Cascades HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities54
- Integrated Power Services Price Service CenterElectric motor and generator repair45
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,183 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Price’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Carbon County and the Price, UT metro.
Price home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Price$308,601
- 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 4 Price listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Price25.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Price60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Price12
Zip codes with a Price address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Price — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.