Riverton, Utah.
Typical home $620,722 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $2,497 (+5.9%). Salt Lake City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,782 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,251 +1%
- $616,471$620,722 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,942 +13%
- $548,780$620,722 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.
- Riverton$3,258
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Riverton, UT rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Riverton, UT rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Riverton runs $1,705/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,844 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,202 a month against $2,497 rent: a $3,258 mortgage payment, plus $279 property tax and $665 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Riverton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,202
- Renting$2,497
- Mortgage only$3,258
Property tax · $279/mo 0.54% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Salt Lake County, UT
Insurance & upkeep · $665/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Riverton, Salt Lake County, Utah
Riverton is a city of 45,285 people in Salt Lake County. Half its households earn more than $126,910 a year and half less, against $97,494 across Salt Lake County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Riverton was 3.7% in August 2026, and Salt Lake 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. Riverton is a city in Salt Lake County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer households fall below the poverty line than is typical. Incomes run well above the county's, and the typical home value and rent both sit at a high level. Residents are younger on average than in many American towns, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Riverton Hospital, Walmart and Lowe's are among the largest workplaces in town. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Unemployment is low and has changed little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Zions Bank Stadium is in or beside town, and America First Field, another stadium, and The Living Planet Aquarium are each a short drive away. For a day out, Utah Lake is a longer drive away, as is Sundance Resort, a ski area. In winter the cold and snowy months suit the ski areas, while summers are warm enough for time by the water.
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- 13,727households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents 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 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Draper-point Of Mountain weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Riverton
- Riverton HospitalGeneral hospital596FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters353
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter144
- Sevita 144400_COUNTRYSkilled nursing facilities130
- Sevita 144401_RIVERTONSkilled nursing facilities127
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day SaintsUsed merchandise store127
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores118
- Riverton-VASAPhysical fitness facilities116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,357 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of RivertonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riverton’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 Salt Lake County and the Salt Lake City, UT metro.
Riverton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverton$620,722
- 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 3 Riverton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Riverton39.11%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Riverton22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Riverton141
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Riverton43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Riverton$583,068
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Riverton99.31%
Zip codes with a Riverton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.