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Place dossier plate
SheetUT-DRAPER-UT · Draper, UT 50,159 pop · income 90th pct
Nearest income peer: Timonium, MD (+ $52 income $)
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 Draper
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Draper on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Harrisburg · lowest
47,783
Harrisburg · lowest
47,783 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #1
Beavercreek · near
130,588
Beavercreek · near
130,588 median HH income
52.2% of the leader · rank #2
Severn · near
130,627
Severn · near
130,627 median HH income
52.3% of the leader · rank #3
Draper · this city
130,680
Draper · this city
130,680 median HH income
52.3% of the leader · rank #4
Timonium · near
130,732
Timonium · near
130,732 median HH income
52.3% of the leader · rank #5
Montgomeryvil… · near
130,769
Montgomeryvil… · near
130,769 median HH income
52.3% of the leader · rank #6
McLean · highest
250,001
McLean · highest
250,001 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Draper on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 50,159.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Draper - the verdict
Draper ranks in the 90th percentile for household income and the 53rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
90th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
53rd
percentile, safety
📝 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: Draper, UT
50,159 people live in Draper, Utah - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Draper households earn a median of $130,680 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.4%. Home values in Draper run a median of $726,000, and the median resident age is 33.7 years. About 50.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 300 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 15% from five years earlier. Draper reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1273.2 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Utah tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 98.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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). Natural-hazard exposure scores 36.2 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Draper'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Draper, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Draper?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.4%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Draper?
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Murray (49,904 residents, $87,864 income); Eagle Mountain (49,514 residents, $105,576 income); Logan (53,923 residents, $56,764 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Covina, CA (50,143 residents); Jeffersonville, IN (50,176 residents); Harrisburg, PA (50,092 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 50.8% 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 Draper?
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 67.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Draper?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1273.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 44% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1102.4
Violent rate
170.8
Total reported rate
1273.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -385 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 300 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
-0.8%
2025 estimate
50,652
2020 estimate
51,037
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Top-decile income · poverty 4.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.9 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Utah average
B-
City profile score · Draper, UT
68/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
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.
Household income A+
$130,680
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
50.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
171 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Draper profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 90/100 (A+) · $130,680
Bachelor's+ share: 85/100 (A) · 50.8%
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.4%
Violent crime: 53/100 (C-) · 171 /100k
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Where Draper sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Draper's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Draper highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Draper, UT (this city): home $726,000, crime 1,273/100k
Covina, CA : home $666,000, crime 1,965/100k
Jeffersonville, IN : home $208,500, crime 1,988/100k
Harrisburg, PA : home $121,000, crime 2,755/100k
Lakewood, OH : home $241,500, crime 1,283/100k
Rosemead, CA : home $729,600, crime 2,856/100k
Murray, UT : home $470,200, crime 3,597/100k
Logan, UT : home $341,000, crime 1,268/100k
Riverton, UT : home $543,900, crime 968/100k
Saratoga Springs, UT : home $567,200, crime 666/100k
How does Draper compare to other US cities?
Where Draper sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
Safety53% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Utah alone, Draper ranks #41 of 67 Utah cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Draper 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 Draper near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Draper ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Draper only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#30 of 293
90th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#22 of 301
93rd percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#143 of 310
52nd percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#34 of 310
89th 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
90th percentile nationally for median household income · 53rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Draper's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Draper's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Draper's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$726,0007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Draper's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,652 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#528 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.6×, Draper sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,652 of 15,516 and #528 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$130,680Draper, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Draper, 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 Draper, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)50.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
50,159
Median Income
$130,680
Median Home Value
$726,000
Median Age
33.7
Poverty Rate
4.4%
Labor force participation
64.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
50.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1273.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
170.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1102.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Draper's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
51,037 residents
2021
51,391 residents
2022
48,805 residents
2023
50,317 residents
2024
50,179 residents
2025
50,652 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
300
housing units authorized
Single-Family
242
detached homes
Multifamily
58
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
261
193
68
$94.0M
2020
779
345
434
$216.1M
2021
267
267
0
$116.5M
2022
718
147
571
$168.4M
2023
77
77
0
$51.0M
2024
300
242
58
$118.0M
Permit volume increased 15% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
67.2%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
23.4%
Other
0.8%
Based on 23,691 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 Draper. 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 Draper 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 Draper sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Draper 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, FBI UCR, 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.