BountifulUT

The quick read

Reading Bountiful, UT beyond the headline numbers

Bountiful sits inside Davis County, Utah, at roughly 40.89°N, -111.88°W. Its population of 43,784 and $104,785 median household income are the two most quoted figures, but in isolation they hide the shape of the city. A median home value of $532,200 paired with median rent of $1,565 is the starting point for a price-to-income read that tells you how stretched a typical household is before any other cost of living factor is considered. The 6.9% poverty rate next to that income figure is the better signal, two cities with identical medians can have very different lived realities depending on the income distribution underneath.

Health and healthcare access are the next layer most residents and prospective movers actually care about. CDC PLACES indicators for Bountiful show the highest-prevalence measure is short sleep duration at 33%, followed by obesity at 31.7%. In and around Bountiful, CMS Hospital Compare tracks 2 hospitals with an average rating of 5/5 and 1 carrying emergency department, the ER count is the more actionable figure if you are evaluating a move because it defines the effective trauma radius.

Areazine reconstructs these layers from U.S. Census ACS (place-level economics and demographics), CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare, each updated on its own cadence, and pairs them with live alerts from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC scoped to the Bountiful area. The comparison bars next to each metric anchor the number against a national reference, which is the fastest way to tell whether Bountiful is an outlier on a given dimension before drilling into the raw value.