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Place dossier plate
SheetUT-MIDVALE-UT · Midvale, UT 35,736 pop · income 54th 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 Midvale
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Midvale on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Marion · lowest
45,829
Marion · lowest
45,829 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #1
St. Paul · near
73,055
St. Paul · near
73,055 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #2
Malcom · near
73,056
Malcom · near
73,056 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Dunlap · near
73,056
Lake Dunlap · near
73,056 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #4
Luxemburg · near
73,056
Luxemburg · near
73,056 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #5
Midvale · this city
73,058
Midvale · this city
73,058 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #6
Syracuse · highest
132,459
Syracuse · highest
132,459 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 Midvale 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: 35,736.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Midvale places in the 54th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
54th
percentile, household income
78th
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: Midvale, UT
Utah's Midvale is a small city, with 35,736 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Midvale households earn a median of $73,058 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.1%. Midvale's housing stock carries a median value of $408,400, and the median resident age is 32.6 years. Educational attainment runs 34.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 74.2% 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 (Construction Slowdown), down 87% 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,313 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Utah run around $178, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Midvale report an average commute of 17.6 minutes, with 64.2% driving alone and 15.4% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 36.2 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Midvale'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 population change to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Midvale, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
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 Midvale?
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 5.1%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Midvale?
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Springville (35,474 residents, $88,516 income); American Fork (35,312 residents, $95,823 income); Kearns metro township (37,058 residents, $83,355 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Salisbury, NC (35,730 residents); Temple City, CA (35,749 residents); Franklin, WI (35,751 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 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 -27 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.1% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Midvale?
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 64.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.6 minutes.
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 Midvale?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 34.2% 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 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.
Matched public schools
6
Bachelor's degree+
34.2%
Poverty estimate
5.1%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 5.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.9 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Utah average
C
City profile score · Midvale, UT
56/100
4 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.
Poverty rate B-
5.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$73,058
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Midvale profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 65/100 (B-) · 34.2%
Household income: 53/100 (C-) · $73,058
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
How does Midvale compare to other US cities?
Here's how Midvale stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income54% higher than other cities
Home value78% 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 Midvale 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 Midvale near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Midvale ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Midvale only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#203 of 293
31st percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#137 of 301
54th percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#126 of 310
58th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#116 of 310
62nd 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
54th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Midvale's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$408,40022nd percentilemore affordable than 22% 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
Midvale's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,692 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,850 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.6×, Midvale sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,692 of 15,516 and #2,850 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
$73,058Midvale, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Midvale, 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 Midvale, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)74.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,736
Median Income
$73,058
Median Home Value
$408,400
Median Age
32.6
Poverty Rate
5.1%
Labor force participation
74.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.2%
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Midvale's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,126 residents
2021
35,878 residents
2022
35,860 residents
2023
36,100 residents
2024
36,245 residents
2025
36,099 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
54
housing units authorized
Single-Family
34
detached homes
Multifamily
20
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
425
9
416
$67.9M
2020
286
36
250
$46.4M
2021
245
26
219
$45.8M
2022
272
24
248
$47.4M
2023
227
23
204
$40.2M
2024
54
34
20
$11.4M
Permit volume decreased 87% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.6 minutes
Drive Alone
64.2%
Carpool
11.9%
Public Transit
3.4%
Walk
2.6%
Work from Home
15.4%
Other
2.5%
Based on 20,992 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 Midvale. 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 Midvale 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 Midvale sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Midvale 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.