Newer-construction living at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains.
Herriman sits in the southwest corner of Salt Lake County, tucked against the Oquirrh Mountains and bordered by Riverton to the east, Bluffdale to the south, and undeveloped foothill land to the west. It is one of the most dramatic growth stories in Utah: a town of roughly 1,500 residents in 2000 now houses more than 57,000, and almost every neighborhood in the city was built in the past two decades.
The Oquirrhs define the city's geography and its lifestyle pitch. Yellow Fork Canyon and Butterfield Canyon both anchor the western edge with established trail networks, and Blackridge Reservoir at the city's heart functions as a summer destination for swimming, paddleboarding, and Friday-night gatherings. The mountain views from most Herriman neighborhoods are unobstructed, and the city is one of the few places in the valley where canyon-adjacent lots are still being built at scale.
The Mountain View Corridor handles north-south access from Herriman, connecting residents to the tech corridor in Lehi and to South Jordan, Sandy, and the I-15 interchange in Draper. Bangerter Highway runs along the city's northern edge. The TRAX light rail does not serve Herriman; the closest stations are in Daybreak (South Jordan) and the Draper end of the Blue Line.
Herriman's housing stock skews newer than any other city in the south valley. The median age of construction is well under twenty years. Practically, this means a buyer in Herriman is shopping a market dominated by newer construction, master-planned developments, and HOA-managed amenity infrastructure.
Watch the narrated Herriman neighborhood tour on our YouTube channel.
Rosecrest, on the western and southern stretches of the city, is one of the largest master-planned communities in the south valley by lot count. The development includes pocket parks, community pools, and a connected trail network designed around the foothill terrain. Buyers looking for newer construction with established amenity infrastructure usually start in Rosecrest.
The neighborhoods on the city's northern and central stretches offer a mix of single-family detached homes and townhomes built across the past fifteen years. These neighborhoods tend to carry slightly lower price points than the canyon-adjacent Rosecrest blocks while still offering newer construction and HOA-managed common areas.
The eastern edge of the city, closer to the Riverton border and the Mountain View Corridor, contains older Herriman developments and a smaller stock of homes built in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These blocks generally trade at price points below the master-planned premiums to the west.
Ask your Realty HQ agent which Herriman neighborhoods are seeing the most builder activity right now and how new-construction pricing is comparing to resale inventory in the established sections.
Herriman falls within the Jordan School District across the entire city. The district has built new elementary, middle, and high schools in step with Herriman's growth, and Herriman High School and Mountain Ridge High School together serve the bulk of the city's secondary students.
The newer schools tend to carry capacity headroom that older Salt Lake County schools no longer have. Online school search tools are a useful starting point, but they're not authoritative for boundary-specific questions. Ask your Realty HQ agent for help confirming your specific address assignment through the district's official tool before you write an offer.
From July through September 2026, 156 single-family homes sold in Herriman at a median of $720,000, 3% above the same quarter of 2025 ($696,500). Another 106 townhomes sold at a median of $446,018. The median home spent 55 days on the market, against 49 days a year earlier.
Townhome sales nearly doubled from a year earlier, from 58 to 106, and the city’s median blends new construction with resale across very different parts of the city. That makes pricing against the right comparables, including what builders are offering nearby, the main thing. Ask your Realty HQ agent which Herriman blocks are trading efficiently right now.
Buyers financing a purchase should run real rate scenarios with their lender rather than work from headline rates. Questions about Utah-specific property tax treatment for homeowners belong with a CPA who knows Utah law. Those are not questions Realty HQ answers, but we consistently point buyers toward the right professionals.
Thinking of selling? Our Herriman seller guide covers how a resale home competes with builder incentives and what moves value in each part of the city.
Source: Wasatch Front Regional MLS (UtahRealEstate.com), single-family and townhome sales, 1 July – 30 September 2026 and the same period of 2025.
Herriman is in Salt Lake County, Utah, in the southwest corner of the county against the Oquirrh Mountains, bordered by Riverton and Bluffdale.
Herriman offers newer-construction housing stock, mountain and canyon access on the western edge, master-planned amenity infrastructure, and Jordan School District schools that were built recently with growth capacity in mind. The city is car-dependent (no TRAX service, low walk and bike scores). Whether Herriman fits depends on your commute, budget, and lifestyle priorities. Ask your Realty HQ agent to walk through which Herriman neighborhoods match your criteria.
Herriman is known for its rapid growth over the past two decades, the Rosecrest master-planned community on its western edge, Blackridge Reservoir as a summer recreation destination, and direct access to Yellow Fork Canyon and Butterfield Canyon for hiking, biking, and OHV use. The Oquirrh Mountains define its western boundary.
Herriman falls entirely within the Jordan School District, with no boundary split. Herriman High School and Mountain Ridge High School serve most of the city's secondary students, and the district has built new schools with growth capacity in step with Herriman's rapid expansion.
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