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Place dossier plate
SheetUT-HEBER-UT · Heber, UT 17,438 pop · income 82nd pct · 10 tracts
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 Heber
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Heber on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Selma · lowest
32,184
Selma · lowest
32,184 median HH income
18.0% of the leader · rank #1
Holbrook · near
107,768
Holbrook · near
107,768 median HH income
60.3% of the leader · rank #2
Hampshire · near
107,774
Hampshire · near
107,774 median HH income
60.3% of the leader · rank #3
Fircrest · near
107,781
Fircrest · near
107,781 median HH income
60.3% of the leader · rank #4
Heber · this city
107,784
Heber · this city
107,784 median HH income
60.3% of the leader · rank #5
Audubon · near
107,785
Audubon · near
107,785 median HH income
60.3% of the leader · rank #6
Highland · highest
178,662
Highland · highest
178,662 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 Heber 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: 17,438.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Heber - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Heber places in the 82nd percentile for household income and the 59th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
82nd
percentile, household income
88th
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
59th
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: Heber, UT
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 17,438 residents in Heber, a small town within Utah. Median household income here is $107,784 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.0%. Heber's housing stock carries a median value of $571,300, and the median resident age is 28.4 years. 42.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 73.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 443 residential building permits were authorized in Heber (Building Boom), up 165% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Heber reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1121.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 46.6°F with 15.1 inches of precipitation per year and 75.0 inches of snowfall.
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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,313 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Utah run around $178, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Heber'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 work and mobility to within-city variation to reported crime to climate and hazard context to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Heber, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Heber?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.0%, 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 Heber?
Within Utah, the closest population matches are South Ogden (17,563 residents, $81,543 income); Bluffdale (18,168 residents, $122,879 income); Centerville (16,692 residents, $117,831 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Auburndale, FL (17,438 residents); Shelbyville, KY (17,436 residents); Kingstowne, VA (17,436 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.
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 72.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 10 Census tracts to this city.
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 Heber?
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 1121.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 51% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
906.6
Violent rate
214.9
Total reported rate
1121.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 46.6°F, with 15.1 inches of precipitation and 75.0 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Utah is 36.2 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
46.6°F
Annual precipitation
15.1 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
36.2
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
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 +2,614 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +15.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 443 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
+15.3%
2025 estimate
19,651
2020 estimate
17,037
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.
Household income A-
$107,784
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
42.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
215 /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.
Heber profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $107,784
Bachelor's+ share: 77/100 (B+) · 42.6%
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 4.0%
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 215 /100k
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Where Heber sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Heber'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 - Heber highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Heber, UT (this city): home $571,300, crime 1,122/100k
Auburndale, FL : home $272,700, crime 2,334/100k
Shelbyville, KY : home $238,600, crime 1,142/100k
Selma, AL : home $102,500, crime 3,092/100k
South Ogden, UT : home $371,100, crime 1,094/100k
Bluffdale, UT : home $652,000, crime 690/100k
Centerville, UT : home $492,700, crime 1,512/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Heber compare to other US cities?
Where Heber sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income82% higher than other cities
Home value88% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
Safety59% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Utah, Heber ranks #34 of 67 Utah cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Heber 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 Heber near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Heber ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Heber only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#64 of 293
78th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#52 of 301
83rd percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#162 of 310
46th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#59 of 310
81st 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
82nd percentile nationally for median household income · 59th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Heber's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Heber'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 Heber's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$571,30012th percentilemore affordable than 12% 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
Heber's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,321 of 15,516
More affordable than 14% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,741 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.3×, Heber sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,321 of 15,516 and #2,741 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$107,784Heber, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Heber, 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 Heber, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)42.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
17,438
Median Income
$107,784
Median Home Value
$571,300
Median Age
28.4
Poverty Rate
4.0%
Labor force participation
73.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
42.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1121.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
214.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
906.6
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
46.6°F
Annual Precipitation
15.1"
Annual Snowfall
75.0"
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Heber's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
17,037 residents
2021
17,411 residents
2022
17,948 residents
2023
18,640 residents
2024
19,039 residents
2025
19,651 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
443
housing units authorized
Single-Family
406
detached homes
Multifamily
37
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
25.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
167
95
72
$48.8M
2020
116
107
9
$42.8M
2021
556
315
241
$137.4M
2022
539
533
6
$172.4M
2023
308
283
25
$117.4M
2024
443
406
37
$188.6M
Permit volume increased 165% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.7%
Carpool
12.7%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
2.3%
Work from Home
11.1%
Other
0.9%
Based on 9,000 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 Heber. 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 Heber 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 Heber sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Heber 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.