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Housing in Escalante

A typical Escalante home is worth roughly $352,000

Typical home value
$352K
UT $535K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,140
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,218
UT $2,525

What kind of housing town is Escalante?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 5.1 years of income

Less than across Utah (5.6 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$291,000
Typical Escalante home $352K

That’s $61K short of a typical Escalante home.

The typical home, each month
$1,950
Loan $1,740Tax $100Insurance $100

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,140 a month here, $810 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Escalante’s typical property tax (0.35% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,140

Renters already here pay a median of $1,656.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$830
1 bedroom$1,040
2 bedrooms$1,140
3 bedrooms$1,400
4 bedrooms$1,910
35%
of households rent · UT 30%
94
renter households
$1,656
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Garfield County, UT): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

65% of Escalante households own their home

Half of Escalante’s homes were built before 1977.

Owners and renters
Own 65%Rent 35%

Utah: 70% own.

1977
typical home built · UT 1992
$1,218
median property tax bill · UT $2,525
0.35%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · UT 0.52%
19%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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