Rush Valley, Utah.
Typical home $643,855 (+1.7% in a year). Salt Lake City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,946 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,881 +2%
- $632,974$643,855 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,893 +19%
- $539,961$643,855 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.
- Rush Valley$3,379
- 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 Rush Valley, UT rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rush Valley, Tooele County, Utah
Rush Valley is a town of 431 people in Tooele County. Half its households earn more than $87,188 a year and half less, against $106,587 across Tooele County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Tooele County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tooele 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rush Valley is a very small town in Tooele County, with a population small enough that neighbors are likely to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's, though typical home values are high. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while July brings hot days; the year is on the dry side, with snow making up a good part of the moisture.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and commutes are long, with few people working from home. Across Tooele County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Jabil SLC and Bass Pro Shops Cabelas.
Things to do. Rush Lake is a lake a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Deseret Peak Wilderness, a protected area, and Camp Floyd State Park Museum, a museum. Great Salt Lake State Park, another protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Tooele County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tooele County had 20,520 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 59°. About 68 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Johnson Pass weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tooele County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,000
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters524
- Jabil SLCBatteries, storage, manufacturing425
- Bass Pro Shops CabelasGeneral warehousing and storage401
- Sportman's Distribution Company LLC (Bass Pro Shops & Cabela's)Bonded warehousing, general merchandise401
- Clean Harbors Aragonite LLC 69AG275
- Mountain West Medical CenterGeneral hospital266FTE
- CarvanaMotor vehicle dealers189
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,823 people in all across the county; Rush Valley has none of its own. 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rush Valley’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 Tooele County and the Salt Lake City, UT metro.
Rush Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rush Valley$643,855
- 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.
- Rush Valley9
Zip codes with a Rush Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rush Valley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.