Summit, Utah.
. Cedar City, UT metro.
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.
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
Living in Summit, Iron County, Utah
Summit, in Iron County, had 170 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Iron County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iron 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Summit is a very small community in Iron County, Utah, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while July is the warmest and still mild, with no real summer heat.
Work. Residents of Summit mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many. Across Iron County, Southern Utah University, Walmart and Cedar City Hospital are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Little Salt Lake, a lake, and the Parowan Meetinghouse, a museum, are both a short drive away. Cedar Breaks National Monument, a protected area, and Brian Head Ski Resort, a ski area, are a longer drive away. The Jesse N. Smith House, another museum, is also a short drive from town.
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What people in Iron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iron County had 25,889 jobs in 2025, 4.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 71° and lows near 42°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brian Head weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iron County
- Southern Utah UniversityUniversity or college1,389
- Building Zone IndustriesErecting structural steel794
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters607
- Cedar City HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals523
- DW Chrysalis Holdings, LLCResidential intellectual and developmental disability facilities504
- Cedar City HospitalGeneral hospital357FTE
- Mountain Capital PartnersSki lodges and resorts with accommodations229
- Genpak Utah WestFood containers, polystyrene foam, manufacturing204
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,338 people in all across the county; Summit 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Summit’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Iron County and the Cedar City, UT metro.
Summit 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.
- Summit14
Zip codes with a Summit address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Summit — 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.