Willard, Utah.
Typical home $585,611 (+3.0% in a year). Ogden-Clearfield, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,805 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,986 +3%
- $568,625$585,611 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,191 +25%
- $469,420$585,611 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.
- Willard$3,074
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Willard, UT rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willard, Box Elder County, Utah
Willard is a city of 1,978 people in Box Elder County. Half its households earn more than $97,782 a year and half less, against $84,550 across Box Elder County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Box Elder County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willard is a small city in Box Elder County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot summer days and the year stays fairly dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades also employing many. Across Box Elder County, the largest workplaces include Northrop Grumman Systems, which makes guided missiles and space vehicles, Autoliv IBC, which makes air bag assemblies, and West Liberty Foods, which makes luncheon meat and poultry products. A fair number of people work from home, and a four-year degree is held by a solid share of adults.
Things to do. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Snowbasin is a ski area and Wasatch–Cache National Forest offers protected woodland, each a longer drive away. The Hill Aerospace Museum is also a longer drive for anyone who likes aviation history.
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- 735households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Box Elder County had 24,727 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 58°. About 38 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brigham City Waste Plt weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Box Elder County
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing1,771
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage858
- Autoliv IBCAir bag assemblies manufacturing780
- Associated Brigham ContractorsFooting and foundation concrete contractors690
- Whitaker Construction CoSewer main, pipe and connection, construction649
- West Liberty FoodsLuncheon meat, poultry, manufacturing573
- Procter & GambleSanitary paper products made in paper mills500
- Nucor Buildings Group WestPrefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,350 people in all across the county; Willard has two of its own. 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 weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willard’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Box Elder County and the Ogden-Clearfield, UT metro.
Willard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willard$585,611
- 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.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willard18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Willard5
Zip codes with a Willard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.