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Housing in Oak City

A typical Oak City home is worth roughly $247,000

Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.

Typical home value
$247K
UT $535K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,260
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,225
UT $2,525

What kind of housing town is Oak City?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.4 years of income

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

You could afford about
$301,000
Typical Oak City home $247K

That covers a typical Oak City home, with $54K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,400
Loan $1,220Tax $100Insurance $70

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,260 a month here, $140 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Oak City’s typical property tax (0.50% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

91% of Oak City households own their home

Half of Oak City’s homes were built before 1974.

Owners and renters
Own 91%Rent 9%

Utah: 70% own.

1974
typical home built · UT 1992
$1,225
median property tax bill · UT $2,525
0.50%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · UT 0.52%
6%
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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,260

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$920
1 bedroom$960
2 bedrooms$1,260
3 bedrooms$1,730
4 bedrooms$1,740
9%
of households rent · UT 30%
23
renter households

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

New construction

2 new homes permitted in 2025

Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Oak City in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Oak City has permitted 19 homes in all.

Single-family
012345 200020052010201520202025
2
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
19
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents+17
New homes+15

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Oak City gained 17 residents while 15 new homes were permitted: about 1.1 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. Across Utah: 2.7 new residents per new home.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025220$149,000
2024330$452,000
2023220$670,000
2022330$607,000
2021440$783,000
2020220$373,000
2019110$188,000
2018000—
2017110$217,000
2016110$279,000
2015330$721,000
2014550$910,000
2013110$244,000
2012220$470,000
2011000—
2010110$207,000
2009550$655,000
2008330$354,000
2007220$307,000
2006000—
2005000—
2004110$132,000
2003000—
2002110$136,000
2001110$135,000
2000220$140,000

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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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