Steve Holm·Iron County
Tour Cedar City, Utah
Eight stops, filmed here, in the order I would actually show you the valley. The whole thing from the air, Main Street on foot, a Saturday morning, what is being built, and the full drive up Highway 14 so you can see the grade before you buy above the valley floor.
1. The valley from the air2. Main Street on foot3. A Saturday at the farmers market4. What is actually being built5. What it costs to be here6. Is it growing too fast7. The drive up Highway 148. Cabin country on Cedar Mountain
Before the tour
The numbers, with their sources
Almost every "Southern Utah market update" you will find is reporting Washington County, which is St. George. It does not describe this valley. Cedar City is its own Micropolitan Statistical Area, and the Census delineation file lists exactly one county in it: Iron County. So these are Iron County and Cedar City CBSA figures only, each one dated, each one linked at the bottom of this page.
- Median sale price, Iron County, July 2026
- $395,000
- Same month a year earlier
- $410,000
- Median sale price, 2026 year to date
- $417,250
- Closed sales, July 2026
- 116
- Closed sales, 2026 year to date
- 703
- Median list price, Cedar City CBSA
- $419,950
- Median days on market
- 90
- Statistical area
- CBSA 16260, Iron County only
Read those two price rows together. The July 2026 median sale price was below July 2025, while the year to date median was up 3.0 percent and closed sales were up 4.0 percent. One month is noise. Also note that median list price and median sale price are different measurements and they diverge, sometimes by a lot, so never read a listing figure as what houses sold for.
The tour
Eight stops around the valley
Nothing here is a highlight reel. The Highway 14 drive runs 41 minutes on purpose, because a cut down version would hide the switchbacks and the real length of that commute, and those are the two facts that decide whether mountain property works for somebody. Players load only when you press play, so the page stays light on a phone.
The valley from the air
Start here. Cedar City sits on a valley floor with the Hurricane Cliffs rising on the east and open desert running west toward Beryl. Six minutes of aerial footage explains the layout faster than any map, and it shows you the thing listing photos never do: which direction the town is growing, and how short the distance is from downtown to open ground.
Main Street on foot
Downtown is walkable and small. This is the stretch of Main Street and Center Street that holds the older commercial buildings, the university edge, and the in-town housing stock. If you are weighing an older home near the center or a downtown commercial building, watch this before you look at a single listing.
A Saturday at the farmers market
What an ordinary Saturday morning looks like. I include it because people relocating ask what there is to do here, and the honest answer is specific rather than impressive: this, the canyon, the theatre season, and the mountain.
What is actually being built
A walkthrough of new commercial construction at the Y intersection. New retail changes traffic counts, drive times and the value of nearby ground, which is why I film development rather than just talking about it. Zoning and the General Plan that govern this are both published by the city.
What it costs to be here
Cost of living, laid out plainly. Worth pairing with the numbers panel above, because a video from last season and a median price from last month are two different kinds of fact and you should know which one you are looking at.
Is it growing too fast
The question I get most from people who already live here and from people thinking about arriving. I answer it with county numbers rather than adjectives.
The drive up Highway 14
Forty one minutes, unedited, from town up State Route 14 into the canyon. This is the single most useful video on the site for anybody considering mountain property, because it shows you the grade, the switchbacks and the length of the commute in real time. The same highway is the route the Park Service gives for Cedar Breaks.
Cabin country on Cedar Mountain
Duck Creek Village and the trail network around it. The mountain runs on a separate seasonal cycle from the valley floor, with different access questions, different water and different winters. Treat it as a different market, because it is one.
Orientation
How the valley is put together
Interstate 15 runs the length of the valley north to south. Cedar City sits on the floor of it. Everything east of town climbs: State Route 14 goes up the canyon toward Cedar Mountain, Duck Creek and eventually Highway 89, and State Route 143 climbs to Brian Head. Everything west flattens out: State Route 56 runs through farm and desert ground toward Beryl and Newcastle. North on the interstate is Enoch, then Parowan at the top of the valley. South is Kanarraville under the ridge, then the drop toward Washington County.
That geography is most of the price map. The same square footage costs differently on an older in-town lot, in a new subdivision pushing north, on five acres on the valley floor, or on a cabin lot at 8,000 feet where the questions are access, water and whether the road is plowed. Those are four separate markets that share one MLS.
Enoch
Directly north off Minersville Highway. Mostly newer subdivisions on larger lots.
Parowan
Top of the valley on the I-15 corridor, and the oldest housing stock in the county. Inspection findings run differently here, and that is a fact about the buildings, not a warning.
Brian Head and Duck Creek
Up SR-143 and SR-14. Cabins and mountain homes on a seasonal cycle completely separate from the valley floor.
Kanarraville
South end of Iron County below the ridge. Small, and inventory is sporadic enough that timing matters more than searching.
Beryl and Newcastle
West desert farmland and acreage off SR-56. Water is the first question out here, not the last.
Getting out of town
What is within a drive
These are National Park Service figures, taken off their own directions pages, not mine. The Park Service puts Zion National Park 60 miles from Cedar City Regional Airport and Bryce Canyon 80 miles from Cedar City. For Cedar Breaks National Monument the route it gives is north on Main Street for 2.2 miles, east on Utah Highway 14 for about 18 miles, then Highway 148 for the final 4 miles. That last one is the same canyon road you can watch end to end in stop 7.
The city also runs Cedar City Regional Airport and publishes its rates, minimum standards and master plan. For industrial and flex property, proximity to the airport and the rail corridor is one of the few real location premiums in this valley.
One thing worth saying plainly: the elevation here means a genuine winter, with snow and plowing and a real difference between a valley commute and a canyon commute in February. Buyers arriving from the low desert are regularly surprised by that, and it is better to be surprised by a video than by a closing.
Asked often
Questions about living here
Is Cedar City part of the St. George real estate market?
What is Cedar City, Utah actually like?
How far is Cedar City from the national parks?
What does a house cost in Cedar City right now?
What kinds of property are there?
Should I look at Cedar City or St. George?
Can I see these places without flying out?
Sources
Where every number on this page came from
Listed so you can check me. If a figure here has drifted since the date shown, the date is the thing to trust, not the figure. I would rather publish a number with an old date on it than a fresh looking number I cannot point at a source for.
Utah Association of Realtors
Local Market Updates by County, July 2026 (All-Counties_2026-07.pdf)
As of July 2026 · utahrealtors.com
Realtor.com via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Median Listing Price in Cedar City, UT (CBSA), series MEDLISPRI16260
As of September 2026 · fred.stlouisfed.org
Realtor.com via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Median Days on Market in Cedar City, UT (CBSA), series MEDDAYONMAR16260
As of September 2026 · fred.stlouisfed.org
U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget
Core Based Statistical Area delineation file, list1_2023, record 16260
As of 2023 delineation · www.census.gov
Southern Utah University
SUU Reports Strong Enrollment Trends, university news release
As of fall 2025, published 14 October 2025 · www.suu.edu
National Park Service
Cedar Breaks National Monument, Directions
As of retrieved October 2026 · www.nps.gov
National Park Service
Zion National Park, Directions and Transportation
As of retrieved October 2026 · www.nps.gov
National Park Service
Bryce Canyon National Park, Directions
As of retrieved October 2026 · www.nps.gov
Utah Shakespeare Festival
About the Festival, the professional theatre at Southern Utah University
As of retrieved October 2026 · www.bard.org
City of Cedar City
Building and Zoning, and the Cedar City General Plan
As of retrieved October 2026 · www.cedarcityut.gov
City of Cedar City
Cedar City Regional Airport (CDC), rates, minimum standards and master plan
As of retrieved October 2026 · www.cedarcityut.gov
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