Sandy, Utah.
Typical home $657,207 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,719 (-0.1%). Salt Lake City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,920 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,784 +2%
- $644,422$657,207 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,389 +16%
- $567,818$657,207 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.
- Sandy$3,450
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Sandy, UT rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Sandy, UT fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Sandy runs $2,730/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $4,449 a month against $1,719 rent: a $3,450 mortgage payment, plus $295 property tax and $704 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Sandy
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$4,449
- Renting$1,719
- Mortgage only$3,450
Property tax · $295/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 · $704/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 Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah
Sandy is a city of 96,904 people in Salt Lake County. Half its households earn more than $112,176 a year and half less, against $97,494 across Salt Lake County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Sandy was 3.6% 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 professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Sandy is a city in Salt Lake County, and one of the larger places in the county. Households here earn more than the county as a whole, and far more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, retail, and banking, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Sandy are Alta View Hospital, Layton Construction Company and Walmart. The commute is a fairly short one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. America First Field, a stadium, is in or beside town, and The Living Planet Aquarium and Zions Bank Stadium are a short drive away. Sundance Resort, a ski area, is a longer drive away, which suits the cold, snowy winters, with summers that turn properly warm.
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- 33,568households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 23%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 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 82 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cottonwood Weir weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sandy
- Layton Construction CompanyCommercial building construction1,645
- Wize SolutionsMaterials handling equipment installation486
- Alta View HospitalGeneral hospital443FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters329
- TargetDiscount department stores210
- Smiths Food And DrugSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores151
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day SaintsUsed merchandise store136
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation HospRehabilitation hospital129FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,572 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sandy’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.
Sandy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sandy$657,207
- 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 2 Sandy listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 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.
- Sandy41.08%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Sandy26
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sandy318
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sandy97
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Sandy$687,712
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Sandy98.37%
Zip codes with a Sandy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sandy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Sandy
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84070 | Sandy | 30,472 | $1,610 | $525,415 |
| 84092 | Sandy | 27,651 | $2,556 | $866,195 |
| 84093 | Sandy | 23,871 | $2,604 | $793,148 |