Millard County, Utah Eviction Risk: Very Low
3 incorporated cities and unincorporated areas. The county Eviction Risk Score is held aloft by the city of Delta (2.5) and a small number of dense urban cores. Rent-control coverage varies by city.
Ranked #1 of 29 UT counties
7k residents · 3 cities · 3 tracts
Millard County eviction risk score history
Key metrics
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Tenant beats landlord14.5%/ 100 outcomesIn court-decided eviction outcomes for Millard County, UT, tenants prevail in roughly 14.5% of contested cases. A higher number means landlords face stronger tenant defenses and longer calendars.
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Timeline26dfiling → judgmentFrom the moment an unlawful-detainer notice is filed in Millard County, UT until a money judgment is entered, a contested eviction takes about 26 days on average. Longer timelines mean more lost rent for landlords.
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Cost range$0.9–3.0klegal + lost rentA typical eviction in Millard County, UT costs landlords $923 to $2,980 all-in, covering court filing fees, process-server costs, attorney time, and lost rent.
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Average rent$94732% stretched on rentAverage gross rent in Millard County, UT is $947 per month per the U.S. Census American Community Survey. 32% of renter households here spend more than 30% of pre-tax income on rent.
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Renters24.6%of households24.6% of occupied housing units in Millard County, UT are renter-occupied. A higher renter share usually correlates with more eviction filings and a more active rental market.
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Poverty12.4%7.5% unemp.12.4% of Millard County, UT residents live below the federal poverty line, and unemployment runs at 7.5%. Both feed the economic-stress sub-score in our Eviction Risk Score model.
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How Millard County ranks in Utah
Landlord guides for Utah
| City↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | % income on rent↕ | Average rent↕ | Lean↕ | |
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| 001 | Delta | 3,705 | 2.5 | 28.4% | $1,044 | Rep |
| 002 | Fillmore | 2,676 | 2.5 | 42.8% | $772 | Rep |
| 003 | Hinckley | 855 | 1.7 | 17.9% | $1,074 | Rep |
County heatmap
One county, multiple regulatory regimes.
Millard County, Utah eviction laws carries an average eviction risk score of 1.8/10, placing it in the Low risk tier and in the middle third of Utah's 29 counties, with 15 counties sitting at higher risk and 13 at lower risk. For landlords and investors, that average translates into a market where tenant disputes are comparatively rare, court filings are infrequent, and the underlying economic profile, an average rent of $947 and a renter share of just 24.6%, reflects a county dominated by owner-occupants rather than a transient rental population.
Conditions across the county's 3 tracked cities are not uniform, though. Scores range from 1.6 to 2.6, a full point of spread that matters when you are selecting a specific asset location. Investors who treat the county average as a single data point may be underpricing or overpricing risk depending on which city they are actually buying in.
The cities inside Millard County
Hinckley carries the county's highest risk score at 2.6/10, despite being the smallest of the three cities with a population of 855. Small-town rental markets can be disproportionately sensitive to a handful of distressed tenancies, and Hinckley's score reflects that concentration. Landlords operating there should build conservative vacancy assumptions into their underwriting.
Fillmore, the county seat, scores 1.9/10 with a population of 2,676. It sits slightly above the county average but still well within the Low tier, suggesting a stable rental environment for a community of its size. Delta is the county's largest city at 3,705 residents and its lowest-risk at 1.6/10, making it the most landlord-friendly option in Millard County by the numbers.
State-level laws that apply here
Every Millard County landlord operates under Utah eviction laws's statewide eviction framework. For non-payment of rent or a lease violation, Utah eviction laws law requires only a 3-day notice before a landlord may proceed to file. A no-cause termination at the end of a lease term requires 30 days. Understanding the full Utah eviction laws eviction process, from notice through judgment and lockout, is essential before acquiring rental property here, because the timeline, while among the more efficient in the Mountain West, still runs 21 to 45 days uncontested and 45 to 120 days if the tenant contests the action.
On the cost side, court filing fees run $360 to $460, sheriff lockout fees add $50 to $175, and attorney fees, if retained, typically run $750 to $3,500 under prevailing market rates in Utah. Utah eviction costs can therefore reach several thousand dollars in a contested case, which reinforces the value of thorough tenant screening upfront. Utah imposes no rent control and requires no just cause for non-renewal at lease end, and state law preempts any local attempt to impose rent caps, making the regulatory environment straightforwardly landlord-friendly at the legislative level.
With an average poverty rate of 12.4% and roughly one in four residents renting, Millard County's rental pool is modest in size but presents manageable risk, particularly in Delta and Fillmore; see the city grid above for individual scores and population figures.
Eviction filings in Millard County
In March 2025, 1 eviction filings were recorded in Millard County, 100.0% of the historical average (near average).1
- 1Mar 2025
- 100.0%of historical avg
- 921Renter households
- 8.8%Poverty rate
Historical eviction filings in Millard County
From 2004 to 2018, eviction filings in Millard County increased 220%. The peak was 18 filings in 2016.2
- 52004
- 18Peak (2016)
- 162018
Data covers 2000–2018, the full span of the Princeton Eviction Lab's national county court-records dataset.