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RENTAL MARKET INTELLIGENCE
Logan, UT
Logan merits investigation by buyers comfortable with modest current income and careful deal selection; investors who require a high starting yield or tight new-supply conditions should avoid it.
Median price$474k
Median rent$1,460
Gross yield3.7%
Job growth▲ 0.7%
Composite Market ScoreRank #175 of 571 scored US market areas
Direct rental answer
How much is rent in Logan, UT?
Zillow's metro-wide Observed Rent Index is $1,460 per month for 2026-06-30. That is up 3.92% from a year earlier.
Occupied rental units paying rent
Two-bedroom standard
These figures are not averaged together. Zillow and Realtor describe asking-rent markets, ACS measures rent paid by surveyed households, and HUD publishes administrative bedroom standards.
Exact county schedules
HUD rent benchmarks inside Logan
Every row keeps its own county FIPS schedule. No county is selected as a metro proxy and no synthetic metro FMR is calculated.
| County | Studio | 1 BR | 2 BR | 3 BR | 4 BR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cache County, UTFIPS 49005 | $940 | $946 | $1,241 | $1,726 | $2,082 |
| Franklin County, IDFIPS 16041 | $940 | $946 | $1,241 | $1,726 | $2,082 |
The read
Why this market scores where it does
Logan merits investigation by buyers comfortable with modest current income and careful deal selection; investors who require a high starting yield or tight new-supply conditions should avoid it. A $473,630 median value against $1,460 median asking rent produces a 3.7% gross yield, so the case is not strong cash flow on headline pricing.
The opportunity is steady rent movement and manageable renter burden: asking rent rose 3.92%, while rent equals 21.59% of median household income. But employment grew only 0.67%, and the 5.84 price-to-income ratio makes acquisition affordability less supportive than tenant affordability. Buyers should separate renters’ apparent payment capacity from their own purchase economics.
Supply and demand require property-level checking. The market recorded 1,794 permits and 4.3 months of for-sale supply, while 29.22% of listings had price drops. Net migration was -225 households. These signals offer negotiating room, but also raise vacancy and resale questions; earthquake exposure adds an insurance and due-diligence issue.
Frequently Asked Investor Questions
Is there visible room to negotiate on purchases?
Median days on market was 38, 29.22% of listings had price drops, and months of supply was 4.3.
How does median asking rent compare with the published two-bedroom fair-market rent?
It is $1,460 versus $1,241, a calculated difference of $219.
What climate issue should diligence prioritize?
Earthquake is the dominant hazard; the published annual climate loss ratio is 0.1277% of building value.
Investor Quick Takeaways
Gross Yield: 3.7%
Computed from the current Zillow rent and home-value medians.
Rent Momentum: ▲ 3.92%
Zillow ZORI rent growth trend over trailing 12 months.
Investor Activity: 5.3%
Originated investment purchase share (CFPB HMDA).
Climate Exposure: FEMA NRI
Annualized loss ratio evaluated for flood & hurricane risk.
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Market pulse
The current market in eight signals
Fast-moving Redfin conditions sit beside the slower fundamentals so a buyer can separate today's negotiating climate from the long-run investment case.
Months of supply4.3 mo.▼ from 5.1 mo. a year ago
Median days on market38 days▼ from 47 days a year ago
Listings with price drops29.2%▼ from 31.3% a year ago
Sale-to-list ratio99.0%2026-05-01
Home value growth▲ 2.5%Zillow ZHVI · trailing 12 months
Rent growth▲ 3.92%Zillow ZORI · trailing 12 months
Gross rental yield3.7%Rent × 12 ÷ price
Payroll job growth▲ 0.7%CES · 12m to 2026-06
Release-to-release evidence
What actually changed
This comparison exists because at least one underlying source period advanced. Rebuilding the same data never creates a new observation.
Published score held steady58→58
0 ptsThe published component scores did not move in this release.
Weights were unchanged at metro-2026-07-v2-omb2023, so the movement comes from refreshed evidence and percentile ranks.
The named source periods advanced, but the measured values on this page held steady.
Composite breakdown
What each component measures
Weights are published, not hidden, and the arithmetic is shown. Five components, each measured as a national percentile across all tracked metros.
Published arithmeticComponent × weight = points
58| Signal | Score | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job growth | 73 | 30% | 21.90 |
| Rent trend | 60 | 25% | 15.00 |
| Affordability | 72 | 15% | 10.80 |
| Supply pressure | 9 | 15% | 1.35 |
| Climate risk | 60 | 15% | 9.00 |
| Published score | 58 | ||
Logan, UT scoreRank #175
58Job growth73/100
CES employment grew 0.67% year over year -> labor-market support is positive but modest.
Rent trend60/100
Median asking rent rose 3.92% while gross yield was 3.7% -> rent movement is positive, but current gross income is modest relative to value.
Affordability72/100
Rent equals 21.59% of median income, but price equals 5.84 times income -> tenant affordability is more favorable than buyer affordability.
Supply pressure9/100
Permits totaled 1,794 and for-sale supply was 4.3 months -> buyers should check nearby projects and resale conditions property by property.
Climate risk60/100
Earthquake is the dominant hazard and the annual loss ratio is 0.1277% -> insurance terms and structural diligence are decision-critical.
The numbers
What this market costs and what it earns
Every derived ratio below recomputes from the same source record used by the article and score.
ZHVI Median Price
$474k
YoY ▲ 2.5%
ZORI Median Rent
$1,460
YoY ▲ 3.92%
Gross Rental Yield
3.7%
Rent × 12 ÷ price
$1,460 × 12 ÷ $473,630
Job Growth (YoY)
▲ 0.7%
CES payrolls
Job signal 73/100
Median Household Income
$81k
Census ACS 5-year
Rent Burden
21.6%
Annual rent ÷ household income
Price-to-Income
5.8x
Median value ÷ household income
HUD 2BR Fair Market Rent
$1,241
Market rent 117.6% of FMR
Historical affordability context
Compare aligned 2019 and 2024 asking-rent and nominal household-income endpoints across the direct-overlap metro set.
Independent rent evidence
One market, several legitimate rent benchmarks
These releases observe different homes and different moments. RentMarker keeps them separate: ZORI remains the scoring baseline, while the other sources test how sensitive the market story is to bedroom mix and measurement method.
Monthly benchmark4 of 4 reported values
Zero-based scale$1,460Primary RentMarker baseline
2026-06-30
All homes and bedroom counts
A smoothed metro rent index for observed rentals; it is the primary rent used by RentMarker scores and career ratios.
View source release ↗$946−$514 vs ZORI
FY2026 FMR
One-bedroom standard
An administrative gross-rent benchmark used by HUD programs; it is neither a listing median nor a prediction of one lease.
View source release ↗$1,241−$219 vs ZORI
FY2026 FMR
Two-bedroom standard
An administrative gross-rent benchmark used by HUD programs; it is neither a listing median nor a prediction of one lease.
View source release ↗$1,201−$259 vs ZORI
ACS 2024 5-year
Occupied rental units paying rent
A five-year survey estimate of contract rent plus applicable tenant-paid utilities; it is not a current asking-rent index.
View source release ↗Take the next step
Keep Logan as context, then replace market-wide evidence with the candidate property's facts.
Regional price level
What feels expensive inside Logan
BEA compares each category with the United States, which equals 100. This is a 2024 price-level comparison—not annual inflation.
BEA Regional Price Parities · 2024US = 100
Occupation wage lens
How asking rent sits against major local occupations
Annualized Zillow asking rent is divided by each BLS annual median wage. This is a screening ratio for one wage, not a household budget or affordability verdict.
Six largest published major groupsannual rent ÷ median wage
Office and Administrative Support Occupations$41,600 median wage
42.1%
Production Occupations$44,760 median wage
39.1%
Educational Instruction and Library Occupations$60,970 median wage
28.7%
Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations$29,770 median wage
58.9%
Sales and Related Occupations$35,390 median wage
49.5%
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations$40,650 median wage
43.1%
Supply pipeline
What is being built, and for whom
Permits are the 12-to-24 month early warning. The total matters less than the mix: apartments compete with a rental the day they open.
National supply context
Compare this authorization pipeline with asking-rent growth, jobs and for-sale liquidity across the evidence-complete metro set.
Building permits by structure type
units per year · latest year annualised
1,794 units authorised in 2026, 40% of them in 5+ unit buildings. A meaningful share is apartments, which discount first when they lease up. ✓ recomputed from series
Who is arriving, and who is buying
Demand, and the competition for it
Tax filings say how many households moved and what they earn; mortgage disclosures say how many local purchases went to someone who will not live there. Moves between counties inside this metro are netted out of both flow figures.
Net Household Move
−225
3,937 in vs 4,162 out (IRS SOI)
▼ 5.7% of arriving households
Mover Income Gap
−$2,596
Arriving $50,291 vs leaving $52,887
Average AGI per tax return (IRS SOI)
Investor Purchase Share
5.3%
86 of 1,624 originated purchase loans
CFPB HMDA 2024
Dominant Hazard
earthquake
0.128% building value annual loss ratio
FEMA NRI · risk type: other
Compare yield and FEMA exposure →Households arrive mainly from: Salt Lake County · Utah County · Davis County · Box Elder County · Weber County
✓ 3,937 in − 4,162 out = -225 netDirect market links
Where tax-return households moved from and to
These are the largest flows where both counties map to a RentMarker market area. They are a documented subset of the all-US IRS totals above.
Leading inbound markets
- Ogden, UT482 arriving
- Salt Lake City, UT467 arriving
- Provo, UT318 arriving
Leading outbound markets
- Salt Lake City, UT641 leaving
- Ogden, UT549 leaving
- Provo, UT356 leaving
The other side
What would make this a bad buy
Generated from the same figures with the instruction to argue against the score, and published unedited. A page that only agrees with itself is an advertisement.
Three ways the case breaks
- A 3.7% gross yield leaves operating costs outside the headline return.
- A total of 1,794 permits alongside 4.3 months of for-sale supply creates exposure to both permitted development and existing listings.
- Tax-filing migration was negative: 4,162 households moved out versus 3,937 in, for net migration of -225.
Inside this metro area
Move from the market-area average to local evidence
Use the available county and city pages to add local price, rent, housing, migration and hazard context to the market-area view.
Statistical peers
Market areas that behave like Logan
Nearest neighbours on price level, income, yield and job growth — not on geography. Every market page gets a different peer set, which is the point.
| Market area | Score | Price | Rent | Yield | Job Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logan, UT (Target) | 58 | $474k | $1,460 | 3.7% | ▲ 0.7% |
| Wenatchee, WA | 31 | $526k | $1,810 | 4.1% | ▲ 0.2% |
| Santa Fe, NM | 44 | $561k | $1,931 | 4.1% | ▲ 0.4% |
| Longview, WA | 42 | $424k | $1,374 | 3.9% | ▲ 0.1% |
| Coeur d'Alene, ID | 59 | $609k | $1,829 | 3.6% | ▲ 0.9% |
Provenance
Where every figure came from
“Checked nightly” means every source is re-pulled and re-verified each night. It does not mean every source moves nightly — the release column tells you how fresh each number can possibly be.
| Dataset Source | Method | Release Period | Pulled Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Census ACS 5-year — household income and gross rent | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-08-05 |
| Census ACS 5-year — historical household income | direct | ACS 2019 and 2024 5-year | 2026-08-05 |
| Census ACS 5-year — population | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-26 |
| Apartment List Rent Estimates — recent-lease rent index | direct | Apartment List 2026-07 | 2026-08-08 |
| Apartment List Time on Market — listing liquidity | direct | Apartment List 2026-07 | 2026-08-08 |
| Apartment List Vacancy Index — rental vacancy | direct | Apartment List 2026-07 | 2026-08-08 |
| BEA County Personal Income — income and population | direct | 2024 County Personal Income (released 2026-02-05); history 1969-2024 | 2026-08-03 |
| BEA Regional Price Parities — metropolitan price levels | direct | 2024 Regional Price Parities (released 2026-02-19); history 2008-2024 | 2026-08-03 |
| BLS CES — payroll employment | direct | CES SM current | 2026-07-26 |
| BLS LAUS — resident employment | direct | LAUS current | 2026-07-26 |
| BLS OEWS — occupation employment and wages | direct | May 2025 OEWS estimates (released 2026-05-15) | 2026-08-03 |
| BLS QCEW — county employment and wages | direct | annual county employment and wages 2021-2025; latest 2025 vs 2024 | 2026-08-02 |
| OMB/BLS delineation — metro geography | direct | OMB July 2023 delineation | 2026-07-30 |
| Census Building Permits Survey — permitted units | direct | BPS through 2026 | 2026-07-26 |
| Census ACS 5-year — city population, households and housing | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-29 |
| Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-30 |
| Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-30 |
| Census ACS five-year — ZCTA housing and income | direct | ACS 2024 5-year ZCTA | 2026-08-08 |
| FEMA National Risk Index — hazard loss ratios | modelled | NRI counties (FEMA ArcGIS) | 2026-07-26 |
| FHFA House Price Index — annual county appreciation | direct | annual county HPI history 1975-2025; latest 2025 | 2026-08-02 |
| HMDA / CFPB — purchases by occupancy type | direct | HMDA 2024 purchase originations | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD CHAS — renter burden by HAMFI income band | direct | HUD CHAS 2018-2022 ACS 5-year (released 2025-12-23) | 2026-08-03 |
| HUD Fair Market Rents — Section 8 standard | direct | FY2026 FMR | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD USPS crosswalk and Small Area FMRs — ZIP rent fallback | direct | ZIP-CBSA 2025Q4 + SAFMR FY2026 | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD-USPS ZIP-to-county residential-address crosswalk | direct | HUD-USPS 2026Q1 | 2026-08-09 |
| IRS SOI — county migration and mover income | direct | SOI migration 2022-2023 | 2026-07-26 |
| Freddie Mac PMMS — mortgage rates | direct | week of 2026-07-30 | 2026-08-06 |
| Census ACS 5-year — effective property tax | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-08-06 |
| Realtor.com Economic Research — county listing inventory | direct | county inventory 2026-06 | 2026-07-28 |
| Realtor.com Rental Report — top-50 asking rents | direct | top-50 rental asking rents 2026-05 | 2026-08-05 |
| Redfin Data Center — inventory, days on market, and price cuts | direct | metro tracker through 2026-05-01 | 2026-07-26 |
| Redfin Data Center — ZIP resale activity and supply | direct | ZIP rolling 3 months through 2026-06-30; updated 2026-07-03 | 2026-08-12 |
| USDA ERS — Rural-Urban Continuum Codes | direct | USDA ERS 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes | 2026-08-02 |
| Zillow ZHVI and ZORI — county values and rents | direct | county ZHVI/ZORI 2026-06 | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZHVI — metro home values | direct | Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZHVI — city home values | direct | zillow_zhvi_city.csv | 2026-07-29 |
| Zillow ZORI — metro market rents | direct | Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_sa_month.csv | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZORI — city market rents | direct | zillow_zori_city.csv | 2026-07-29 |
| Zillow ZORI - metro market rents, not seasonally adjusted | direct | Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv | 2026-08-15 |
| Zillow ZORI — ZIP market rents | direct | ZORI ZIP 2026-06 | 2026-08-08 |