Counties / Utah / Uintah County

Uintah County, UT

FIPS 49047 · population 37,056 · part of Vernal, UT

$360k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$360k
▲ 4.7% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$1,422
▲ 3.6% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
4.7%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$1,032
market rent is 1.38x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

Both annual signals move in the same direction
FHFA five-year cumulative+68.6%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+4.7%FHFA HPI2025+0.2%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$299k
Surveyed gross rent$941
Rent burden 30%+31.4%
Median year built1992
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
12.2%vacant
13,838estimated housing units
Occupied tenure26.5% renter
owner 73.5%renter 26.5%
Structure mix72.6% single-family
Single-family 72.6%20+ units 3.0%Mobile home 11.7%Other 12.7%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs15,746▲ 3.7% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments1,369annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,185▲ 7.9% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities25.5% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+3.7%WEEKLY WAGE+7.9%Trade, transportation, and utilities25.5%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Uintah County offers a positive rent-to-price snapshot but requires a conservative liquidity and expense check. Investors able to validate unit-level costs, tenant depth and flood exposure should investigate; buyers dependent on rapid resale or thin carrying-cost margins should be cautious. Zillow’s 2026-06 county median home value was $360,295, up 4.65%, while median asking rent was $1,422 monthly, up 3.61%. The supplied gross yield was 4.74% before costs, not net return.

02Housing economics

Measured asking rent is distinct from HUD’s $1,032 two-bedroom Fair Market Rent, a payment standard rather than a county asking-rent estimate; it cannot replace market rent in yield work. The effective property-tax rate was 0.51%; the published median tax is an area benchmark, not a specific asset’s bill. FHFA’s 2025 annual repeat-transaction HPI increased 0.18%. It is an appreciation index, not a home value; its different vintage and method do not make it the same-period Zillow result or permit averaging changes.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s 2026-06 MLS evidence shows visible supply increased, median listing prices declined, marketing time shortened and sellers reduced prices. These are active asking-inventory, marketing-time and concession measures, not closed-sale values or proof of buyer demand; the pending-to-active ratio is only a listing-pipeline measure. QCEW’s 2025 annual data show covered workplace jobs and average weekly wages increased, not resident employment, unemployment or a metro series. Trade, transportation, and utilities was the largest disclosed private supersector, a concentration to trace to tenant and borrower exposure.

04Risk & next checks

Tax-return migration showed a net gain of 18 households, with movers-in average AGI $3,081 above movers-out; that provides limited demand confirmation. Non-occupant purchase mortgages were 4.14% of purchases, measuring only that financing-defined investor channel. For inland flood, modeled climate loss equals 0.05% of building value per year, not property-specific loss. Missing vacancy, leases, operating expenses, insurance, flood-zone, condition and closed-sale data prevent net-income, acquisition-basis and asset-level hazard conclusions.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Uintah County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Vernal city10.4KMaeser CDP4.4KNaples city3.3KBallard town1.8KFort Duchesne CDP271Jensen CDP258Lapoint CDP122Whiterocks CDP117
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

10 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Vernal cityIncorporated place
    10,392
  2. 02
    Maeser CDPCensus-designated place
    4,435
  3. 03
    Naples cityIncorporated place
    3,285
  4. 04
    Ballard townIncorporated place
    1,803
  5. 05
    Fort Duchesne CDPCensus-designated place
    271
  6. 06
    Jensen CDPCensus-designated place
    258
  7. 07
    Lapoint CDPCensus-designated place
    122
  8. 08
    Whiterocks CDPCensus-designated place
    117
  9. 09
    Randlett CDPCensus-designated place
    116
  10. 10
    Bonanza CDPCensus-designated place
    0

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.054% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.51%

$1,523 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+18

768 in · 750 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$3,081

$53,158 arriving · $50,077 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors4.1%

18 of 435 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings140▲ 19.1% year over year
Median days on market62▼ 6.1% year over year
Listings price-reduced18.3%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 6.0% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Vacancy, lease and operating-expense evidence could show that the gross yield does not translate into adequate net income.
  2. MLS listing softening could leave acquisition pricing or resale liquidity weaker than county value evidence suggests.
  3. Property-specific flood exposure, insurance costs and the local impact of industry concentration are not established by county-level data.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

What rental metric supports the stated gross yield?

Published median asking rent supports the supplied gross yield; HUD Fair Market Rent is separate and is not a market-rent estimate.

Does the record establish a completed-sale value for a target property?

No. Realtor.com provides MLS listing-market evidence, while no closed-sale price or property-specific acquisition basis is published.

What hazard requires asset-level diligence?

Inland flood is the dominant hazard, but the modeled county loss ratio is not a flood-zone determination or a property-specific loss estimate.