A typical Scipio home is worth roughly $311,000
Builders were permitted 3 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Scipio?
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What it takes to buy in Scipio
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That covers a typical Scipio home, with $79K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020 a month here, $750 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Utah typical property tax (0.52% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
3 of Scipio’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Scipio’s homes were built before 1944.
Utah: 70% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
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.
3 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 3 new homes in Scipio in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Scipio has permitted 14 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Scipio gained 26 residents while 1 new home was permitted: about 26 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. Across Utah: 2.7 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $826,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $594,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $297,000 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $891,000 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $891,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $594,000 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $204,000 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $693,000 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $526,000 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $255,000 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $255,000 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $255,000 |
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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.