Tooele, Utah.
Typical home $428,100 (-0.6% in a year), asking rent $1,645 . Salt Lake City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,231 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,456 -1%
- $430,556$428,100 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,798 +12%
- $383,302$428,100 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.
- Tooele$2,247
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Tooele, UT fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tooele, Tooele County, Utah
Tooele is a city of 35,742 people in Tooele County. Half its households earn more than $96,221 a year and half less, against $106,587 across Tooele County; 6% 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 was 4.1% in August 2026, and Tooele County had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tooele is a city with a younger population than much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while July brings hot summer days, and the year's moisture is modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. The largest workplaces in Tooele include Mountain West Medical Center, Walmart and Carvana. Unemployment is slightly lower than a year earlier, though across Tooele County the number of jobs slipped a little last year, and a typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Lake Bonneville and Rush Lake are both a short drive away for time by the water, and Utah Motorsports Campus, a race track, is close by as well. For a longer outing, Antelope Island State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 12,354households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents 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 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 64°. About 75 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tooele weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tooele
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters524
- Mountain West Medical CenterGeneral hospital266FTE
- CarvanaMotor vehicle dealers189
- AMS TooeleEngines, diesel and semidiesel, manufacturing157
- Associated Food StoresGrocery stores125
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores86
- Holm DeliveryDelivery service81
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day SaintsUsed merchandise store81
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,557 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of TooeleRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tooele’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Tooele County and the Salt Lake City, UT metro.
Tooele home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tooele$428,100
- 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 Tooele listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Tooele37.08%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Tooele34
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tooele224
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tooele61
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Tooele$411,526
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Tooele99.93%
Zip codes with a Tooele address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tooele — 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.