City safety & data profile
Salt Lake CityUT
Salt Lake City, UT is a 216K-resident city in Salt Lake County with a median household income of $75,090.
Salt Lake County, Utah. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Salt Lake City, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Salt Lake City has a population larger than 98% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $539,500, and 8 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-03
- 216K
- Population (place)
- Top 2%
- By size
- $75,090
- Median income (place)
- $539,500
- Median home (place)
- 13.6%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City posts a median household income higher than 43% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 recent safety alert is on record and 8 hospitals serve the Salt Lake City area.
- Bottom 44%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- safety alert on record
- 8
- hospitals in & near Salt Lake City
Where Salt Lake City income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$75,090 Bottom 43% higher than 43% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in UT
Population among 58 UT places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, UT
215,548 residents
- West Valley …
West Valley City, UT
136,208 residents
- Provo
Provo, UT
115,162 residents
- West Jordan
West Jordan, UT
111,946 residents
- Orem
Orem, UT
94,457 residents
- Sandy
Sandy, UT
87,461 residents
- Ogden 85,444
Ogden, UT
85,444 residents
- Layton 74,143
Layton, UT
74,143 residents
- Saint George 72,897
Saint George, UT
72,897 residents
- South Jordan 66,648
South Jordan, UT
66,648 residents
What this shows Salt Lake City is the largest UT city on this list; Highland leads median income.
Highest median incomes in UT
Median household income among the same 58-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Highland
Highland, UT
$186,075 median
- Alpine
Alpine, UT
$168,929 median
- Cedar Hills
Cedar Hills, UT
$139,008 median
- South Jordan
South Jordan, UT
$134,047 median
- Syracuse
Syracuse, UT
$133,443 median
- Kaysville
Kaysville, UT
$133,026 median
- Lehi
Lehi, UT
$131,299 median
- Bluffdale
Bluffdale, UT
$129,531 median
- Draper
Draper, UT
$128,910 median
- Saratoga Spr…
Saratoga Springs, UT
$128,802 median
What this shows Highland posts the highest place-level median income in UT; Salt Lake City is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Salt Lake City, UT beyond the headline numbers
Salt Lake City sits inside Salt Lake County, Utah, at roughly 40.76°N, -111.89°W. Population 215,548, $75,090 median household income. Median home value $539,500, median rent $1,414. Poverty rate 13.6%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
8 hospitals in/around Salt Lake City, 4.2/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER.
Poverty in Salt Lake City, UT stands at 13.6%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
The median home in Salt Lake City costs around 7.2 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
20.8% of Salt Lake City workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
Among the CDC measures on this page, high blood pressure departs furthest from its peer median: 25.5% in Salt Lake City, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
4.8% of Salt Lake City workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Salt Lake City's median age is 32.9 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Salt Lake City from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Salt Lake County): Salt Lake City's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 13.6% +10% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 4.2% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 51.5% |
| Work From Home | 20.8% |
| Public Transit | 4.8% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 8 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Salt Lake City? 1
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet UT-SALT-LAKE-CITY · Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City: 1 tagged alert; lead category EPA air-quality advisory.
- VOL-TRACE 1 on record
- AQ-LED 100% air quality
- DESK-MIX EPA
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston
- RANK-MID #71 tagged volume
Tagged alert mix: Salt Lake City
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Air Quality
Air Quality
1
What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Salt Lake City.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Salt Lake City; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Utah state hubs · Methodology
Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
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Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Salt Lake City, both outside Utah so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside UT (13.6% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside UT ($75,090 here).
Compare Salt Lake City with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Salt Lake City's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Salt Lake City area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Salt Lake City against Utah peers on any ranking lens. Explore Utah
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Salt Lake County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.