White City, Utah.
Typical home $502,858 (+1.8% in a year). Salt Lake City, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,481 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,850 +2%
- $494,008$502,858 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,115 +16%
- $432,743$502,858 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.
- White City$2,639
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in White City, UT rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White City, Salt Lake County, Utah
White City is a township of 5,522 people in Salt Lake County. Half its households earn more than $106,357 a year and half less, against $97,494 across Salt Lake County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Salt Lake County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the 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 26 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White City is a township in Salt Lake County, with a younger population than most of the country and a settled feel: nearly all homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below it, while July brings hot summer afternoons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops. Across Salt Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Utah, U of U Hospitals & Clinics and Western Governors University. The commute is a fairly typical 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 both a short drive away. For a day out, Temple Square, a garden, and the Jordan River are a longer drive away. Those who like skiing can head to Sundance Resort, also a longer drive.
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- 1,958households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 22%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 Salt Lake County
- University of UtahUniversity or college16,385
- U of U Hospitals & ClinicsGeneral hospital12,298FTE
- Salt Lake CountyGeneral services departments, government8,613
- Western Governors UniversityUniversity or college8,420
- Bodell Construction an Aecon CompanyIndustrial building construction, general contractors6,260
- Salt Lake CountyRecreational sports club facilities4,565
- Sutter HealthHealthcare3,932
- Intermountain Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,720FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,130 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 202,386 people in all across the county; White City has one 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of White CityRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in White City’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 Salt Lake County and the Salt Lake City, UT metro.
White City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White City$502,858
- Utah$532,920
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 White City listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- White City18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- White City8
Zip codes with a White City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.