Vernal, Utah.
Typical home $296,499 (+4.1% in a year), asking rent $1,473 . Vernal, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$887 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,757 +4%
- $284,742$296,499 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,917 +42%
- $208,582$296,499 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.
- Vernal$1,556
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Vernal, UT rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vernal, Uintah County, Utah
Vernal is a city of 10,079 people in Uintah County. Half its households earn more than $64,457 a year and half less, against $73,746 across Uintah County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Uintah County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vernal is a small city in Uintah County, and its people are younger than in most American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than is typical. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the community. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people get to work in a short drive.
Work. Many residents work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with farming, forestry and mining also part of the local picture. Among the largest workplaces in Vernal are Ashley Regional Medical Center, the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers are warm; snow falls through the colder months, while rain and melted snow add up to little over the year.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum is a museum that fits Vernal's dinosaur-country setting, and the Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic Byway is a tourist route that starts close by. Steinaker State Park is a short drive away. Dinosaur National Monument, one of the best known protected areas around, is a longer drive away.
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- 3,369households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Uintah County had 15,608 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 57°. About 20 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vernal weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vernal
- Ashley Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital207FTE
- BHSOil and gas field services on a contract basis172
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior76
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture63
- Ashley Valley Physician PracticesPhysicians' offices60
- VernalMail and parcel delivery35
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services30
- 6g Management ServicesOil and gas27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 589 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vernal’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 Uintah County and the Vernal, UT metro.
Vernal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vernal$296,499
- 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 4 Vernal listings — 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.
- Vernal25.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vernal48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vernal11
Zip codes with a Vernal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vernal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.