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SheetUT-FOUNTAIN-GREEN-UT · Fountain Green, UT 1,539 pop · income 50th 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 Fountain Green
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fountain Green on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
East Carbon · lowest
40,114
East Carbon · lowest
40,114 median HH income
17.0% of the leader · rank #1
Wakeman · near
70,393
Wakeman · near
70,393 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #2
Greenville · near
70,401
Greenville · near
70,401 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #3
West Springfi… · near
70,401
West Springfi… · near
70,401 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #4
Fountain Green · this city
70,402
Fountain Green · this city
70,402 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #5
Pemberton Hei… · near
70,403
Pemberton Hei… · near
70,403 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #6
Silver Summit · highest
235,329
Silver Summit · highest
235,329 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 Fountain Green 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: 1,539.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Fountain Green lands in the 50th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
50th
percentile, household income
68th
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: Fountain Green, UT
1,539 people live in Fountain Green, Utah - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Fountain Green report a median income of $70,402 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.8%. Typical homes in Fountain Green are valued around $321,000, and the median resident age is 42.1 years. 21.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 55.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 1 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Utah tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Utah at 98.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,313 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $178 across Utah, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Fountain Green workers runs 33.1 minutes, with 65.3% driving alone and 6.9% working from home. 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 Fountain Green'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 work and mobility to housing and income to population change to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fountain Green, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Fountain Green?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 33.1 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Fountain Green?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.8%, 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.
Is Fountain Green growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +130 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.8% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fountain Green?
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Wellington (1,526 residents, $58,807 income); Silver Summit (1,574 residents, $235,329 income); Wolf Creek (1,599 residents, $162,708 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Keystone Heights, FL (1,539 residents); Wellman, IA (1,539 residents); Garden City, MO (1,539 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Fountain Green?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 21.7% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
Matched public schools
1
Bachelor's degree+
21.7%
Poverty estimate
2.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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.
Poverty rate A-
2.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C-
$70,402
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Fountain Green profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 80/100 (A-) · 2.8%
Household income: 50/100 (C-) · $70,402
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 39/100 (F) · 21.7%
How does Fountain Green compare to other US cities?
Fountain Green measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income50% higher than other cities
Home value68% 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 Fountain Green 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 Fountain Green near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fountain Green ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fountain Green only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#219 of 293
25th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#196 of 301
35th percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#199 of 310
34th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#211 of 310
32nd 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
50th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Fountain Green's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$321,00032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Fountain Green's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,102 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,249 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.6×, Fountain Green sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,102 of 15,516 and #9,249 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$70,402Fountain Green, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fountain Green, 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 Fountain Green, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,539
Median Income
$70,402
Median Home Value
$321,000
Median Age
42.1
Poverty Rate
2.8%
Labor force participation
55.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.7%
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fountain Green's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,203 residents
2021
1,233 residents
2022
1,261 residents
2023
1,289 residents
2024
1,311 residents
2025
1,333 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
33.1 minutes
Drive Alone
65.3%
Carpool
25.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
6.9%
Other
2.8%
Based on 663 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 Fountain Green. 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 Fountain Green 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 Fountain Green sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fountain Green 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.