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Place dossier plate
SheetUT-LEHI-UT · Lehi, UT 81,039 pop · income 89th 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 Lehi
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lehi on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Flint · lowest
36,194
Flint · lowest
36,194 median HH income
28.6% of the leader · rank #1
Caswell Beach · near
125,833
Caswell Beach · near
125,833 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #2
Gray · near
125,838
Gray · near
125,838 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #3
Lehi · this city
125,860
Lehi · this city
125,860 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #4
Homa Hills · near
125,865
Homa Hills · near
125,865 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #5
Black Point-G… · near
125,875
Black Point-G… · near
125,875 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #6
South Jordan · highest
126,400
South Jordan · highest
126,400 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 Lehi 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: 81,039.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lehi - the verdict
Lehi ranks in the 89th percentile for household income and the 80th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
89th
percentile, household income
88th
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
80th
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: Lehi, UT
Utah's Lehi is a small city, with 81,039 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $125,860 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Lehi's housing stock carries a median value of $567,100, and the median resident age is 26.6 years. Educational attainment runs 50.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 71.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1,027 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 21% from five years earlier. Lehi reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 629.3 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Utah run around $178, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 17.6 minutes, with 66.3% driving alone and 22.8% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Lehi'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 comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households to population change to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lehi, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, 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
Which cities make useful reference points for Lehi?
Within Utah, the closest population matches are South Jordan (80,331 residents, $126,400 income); Layton (82,512 residents, $99,188 income); Ogden (86,973 residents, $70,053 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Flint, MI (80,835 residents); Miami Beach, FL (81,319 residents); Homestead, FL (80,725 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.
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 629.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 50.2% 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.
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 +18,446 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +24.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,027 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Lehi?
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 66.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.6 minutes.
Public transit
1.2%
Work from home
22.8%
Drive alone
66.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 38,317 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Lehi?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, 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.
Household income
$125,860
Home value
$567,100
Value / income
4.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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
$125,860
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A-
50.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
88 /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.
Lehi profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 88/100 (A) · $125,860
Bachelor's+ share: 84/100 (A-) · 50.2%
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Violent crime: 74/100 (B) · 88 /100k
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Where Lehi sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lehi'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 - Lehi highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Lehi, UT (this city): home $567,100, crime 629/100k
Flint, MI : home $47,600, crime 2,570/100k
Rancho Cordova, CA : home $451,400, crime 2,538/100k
Warner Robins, GA : home $171,600, crime 3,646/100k
Frederick, MD : home $365,200, crime 2,080/100k
South Jordan, UT : home $614,800, crime 982/100k
Layton, UT : home $437,400, crime 1,476/100k
Ogden, UT : home $311,300, crime 2,431/100k
Orem, UT : home $439,000, crime 1,534/100k
How does Lehi compare to other US cities?
Where Lehi sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value88% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
Safety80% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Utah and the picture shifts: Lehi ranks #11 of 67 Utah cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Lehi 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 Lehi near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lehi ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lehi only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#38 of 293
87th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#56 of 301
81st percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#185 of 310
39th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#36 of 310
88th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income · 80th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lehi's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lehi'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 Lehi's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$567,10012th 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
Lehi's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,984 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#394 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.5×, Lehi sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,984 of 15,516 and #394 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$125,860Lehi, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lehi, 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 Lehi, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)50.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
81,039
Median Income
$125,860
Median Home Value
$567,100
Median Age
26.6
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
71.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
50.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
629.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
88.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
541.0
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lehi's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
76,867 residents
2021
79,970 residents
2022
84,628 residents
2023
90,934 residents
2024
93,081 residents
2025
95,313 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
1,027
housing units authorized
Single-Family
733
detached homes
Multifamily
294
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
12.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,303
1,303
0
$339.1M
2020
1,044
1,044
0
$298.6M
2021
2,030
1,562
468
$480.3M
2022
2,144
1,099
1,045
$513.3M
2023
687
667
20
$186.3M
2024
1,027
733
294
$275.6M
Permit volume decreased 21% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.6 minutes
Drive Alone
66.3%
Carpool
8.1%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
22.8%
Other
1.3%
Based on 38,317 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 Lehi. 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 Lehi 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 Lehi sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lehi 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.