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SheetUT-BOUNTIFUL-UT · Bountiful, UT 45,093 pop · income 80th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Bountiful
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bountiful on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sherman · lowest
60,935
Sherman · lowest
60,935 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #1
Pennsburg · near
103,698
Pennsburg · near
103,698 median HH income
64.9% of the leader · rank #2
Raritan · near
103,699
Raritan · near
103,699 median HH income
64.9% of the leader · rank #3
Vail · near
103,705
Vail · near
103,705 median HH income
64.9% of the leader · rank #4
Bountiful · this city
103,723
Bountiful · this city
103,723 median HH income
64.9% of the leader · rank #5
Beverly · near
103,739
Beverly · near
103,739 median HH income
64.9% of the leader · rank #6
Morgan Hill · highest
159,758
Morgan Hill · highest
159,758 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Bountiful on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 45,093.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Bountiful places in the 80th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
80th
percentile, household income
84th
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Bountiful, UT
45,093 people live in Bountiful, Utah - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Bountiful brings in $103,723 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.2%. Typical homes in Bountiful are valued around $488,900, and the median resident age is 32.4 years. Educational attainment runs 46.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 54 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 18% from five years earlier.
Utah tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Utah scores 98.9 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,313 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Utah's average monthly utility costs around $178 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 36.2 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bountiful's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to schools and households to work and mobility to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bountiful, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Bountiful?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What does the education layer cover for Bountiful?
The NCES join finds 15 public schools within the city match. 46.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
What does the journey to work look like in Bountiful?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bountiful?
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Riverton (44,944 residents, $119,093 income); Saratoga Springs (44,070 residents, $123,619 income); Spanish Fork (43,632 residents, $98,497 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Littleton, CO (45,092 residents); Pearl, HI (45,079 residents); Sherman, TX (45,036 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Bountiful growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -836 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 54 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-1.8%
2025 estimate
44,988
2020 estimate
45,824
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A-
46.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$103,723
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living D
98.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Bountiful profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 81/100 (A-) · 46.6%
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $103,723
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.2%
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
How does Bountiful compare to other US cities?
Where Bountiful sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value84% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Bountiful against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Utah only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Utah-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Bountiful near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bountiful ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bountiful only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#77 of 293
74th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#88 of 301
71st percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#149 of 310
49th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#45 of 310
85th percentile in Utah
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Utah only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
80th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Bountiful's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$488,90016th percentilemore affordable than 16% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. 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 ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Bountiful's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,402 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,470 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, Bountiful sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,402 of 15,516 and #2,470 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$103,723Bountiful, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bountiful, UT median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Bountiful, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)46.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
45,093
Median Income
$103,723
Median Home Value
$488,900
Median Age
32.4
Poverty Rate
4.2%
Labor force participation
66.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
46.6%
Schools
Total Schools
15
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Bountiful's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
45,824 residents
2021
45,516 residents
2022
44,602 residents
2023
44,363 residents
2024
45,039 residents
2025
44,988 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
54
housing units authorized
Single-Family
27
detached homes
Multifamily
27
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
66
25
41
$19.6M
2020
48
29
19
$18.7M
2021
72
42
30
$27.7M
2022
28
8
20
$11.7M
2023
307
20
287
$68.2M
2024
54
27
27
$18.1M
Permit volume decreased 18% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.9%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
19.4%
Other
1.3%
Based on 21,526 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Utah statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $178
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Utah at $178 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Utah statewide averages, not a meter reading for Bountiful. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Utah's BEA cost-of-living index is 98.9 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Bountiful is $1,313/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Utah statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 36.2 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Utah statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Bountiful sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bountiful compares to similar-size Utah cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.