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Spring City, Utah.

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What it costs per month · Spring City $2,797/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,525 (+120%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Utah $2,797 United States $1,922
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  • Utah$2,797
  • United States$1,922

Living in Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah

Spring City is a city of 949 people in Sanpete County. Half its households earn more than $71,250 a year and half less, against $70,083 across Sanpete County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sanpete County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sanpete County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 949 in the 2020 census
Household income $71,250 the median, give or take $2,525 · Sanpete County: $70,083
Unemployment 4.1% Sanpete County, August 2026; 4.2% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Spring City for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Spring City is a very small town in Sanpete County, home to fewer people than most places that carry the name of a city. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below freezing, while summers turn properly hot in July; precipitation is light across the year, falling as both rain and melted snow.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many people. Across Sanpete County, the largest workplaces include Snow College, Pitman Farms' Moroni Turkey Processing and Sanpete Valley Hospital. The typical commute is a short one, and only a few people work from home.

Things to do. The Moroni Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive reaches Palisade State Park and Yuba State Park, both protected areas, and Manti–La Sal National Forest, a large stretch of national forest.

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  • 359households
  • 6%below the poverty line
  • 22 mintypical commute
  • 4%work from home

What people in Sanpete County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care28%
  • Manufacturing11%
  • Building trades9%
  • Shops (retail)8%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%
  • Farming, forestry and mining8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sanpete County had 9,524 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 38° and 13°; warmest in July, 89° and 52° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 38° 13° F M A M J J 89° 52° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 38° and 13°; warmest in July, 89° and 52° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 38° 13° F M A M J J 89° 52° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 52°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moroni weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Sanpete County

  1. Snow CollegeUniversity or college660
  2. Pitman Farms, Moroni Turkey ProcessingMeat canning, poultry, manufacturing584
  3. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters224
  4. Central Utah TelephoneInternet service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure172
  5. Christensen ArmsFirearms, small, manufacturing169
  6. Sanpete Valley HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals158
  7. Gunnison Valley HospitalCritical access hospital142FTE
  8. Mission at Community Living and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities112

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,538 people in all across the county; Spring City 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

  1. LightningVery high
  2. Winter weatherVery high
  3. WildfireRelatively high
  4. AvalanchesRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively moderate
  6. Heat wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Spring City’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 Sanpete County.

Spring City home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Spring City address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spring City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.