ZIP code 84721

ZIP 84721 is a small city in Iron County, Utah, with 29,635 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #50 of 299 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 28.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in ZIP 84721 earn a median of $73,342 a year, 6.6% below the national figure of $78,538. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 84721 is valued at $345,000, 13.7% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,076 a month, 23.5% below the national figure, or roughly $12,912 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 67.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 28.3 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 84721 is tabulated inside Iron County, Utah, one of 10 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 299 across Utah. This is a mid-sized ZIP that covers a large share of its county's addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 84721 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 84721 reports a median household income of $73,342, 14% above the $64,193 county median, and 7% below the $78,550 typical UT ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $345,000, 12% above the county figure and 5% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,076 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Utah charges 4.85% statewide, and local governments overlapping 84721 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 84721 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.