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SheetUT-PROVIDENCE-UT · Providence, UT 8,675 pop · income 80th 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 Providence
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Providence on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Price · lowest
46,947
Price · lowest
46,947 median HH income
26.2% of the leader · rank #1
Tinley Park · near
103,819
Tinley Park · near
103,819 median HH income
57.8% of the leader · rank #2
Centennial · near
103,828
Centennial · near
103,828 median HH income
57.8% of the leader · rank #3
Providence · this city
103,831
Providence · this city
103,831 median HH income
57.8% of the leader · rank #4
Overland Park · near
103,838
Overland Park · near
103,838 median HH income
57.8% of the leader · rank #5
Chino · near
103,845
Chino · near
103,845 median HH income
57.8% of the leader · rank #6
Summit Park · highest
179,516
Summit Park · highest
179,516 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 Providence 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: 8,675.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Providence lands in the 80th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
80th
percentile, household income
84th
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: Providence, UT
Utah's Providence is a small town, with 8,675 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Providence households earn a median of $103,831 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.5%. Home values in Providence run a median of $478,300, and the median resident age is 33.9 years. About 46.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 3 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,313 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Utah's average monthly utility costs around $178 (state average). The average commute for Providence workers runs 14.5 minutes, with 74.8% driving alone and 14.3% 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 Providence'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 population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Providence, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Providence?
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.
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 6.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Providence?
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.
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Summit Park (8,545 residents, $179,516 income); Park City (8,365 residents, $140,875 income); Price (8,216 residents, $46,947 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fort Mitchell, KY (8,676 residents); Midland, WA (8,676 residents); Perry Heights, OH (8,672 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.
What does the education layer cover for Providence?
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.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 46.6% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Providence?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.5 minutes.
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.
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.
Population change
Is Providence growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,235 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +14.9% 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.
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.
2020 estimate
8,304
2025 estimate
9,539
Period change
+14.9%
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.
Bachelor's+ share A-
46.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$103,831
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Providence profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 81/100 (A-) · 46.6%
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $103,831
Poverty rate: 56/100 (C) · 6.5%
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
How does Providence compare to other US cities?
Providence measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value84% 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 Providence 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 Providence near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Providence ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Providence only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#76 of 293
74th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#93 of 301
69th percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#96 of 310
68th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#45 of 310
85th 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
80th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Providence's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$478,30016th percentilemore affordable than 16% 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
Providence'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
#12,192 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,309 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.6×, Providence sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,192 of 15,516 and #9,309 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
$103,831Providence, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Providence, 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 Providence, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)46.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,675
Median Income
$103,831
Median Home Value
$478,300
Median Age
33.9
Poverty Rate
6.5%
Labor force participation
60.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
46.6%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Providence's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,304 residents
2021
8,719 residents
2022
9,026 residents
2023
9,329 residents
2024
9,407 residents
2025
9,539 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.5 minutes
Drive Alone
74.8%
Carpool
7.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
14.3%
Other
1.8%
Based on 3,563 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 Providence. 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 Providence 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 Providence sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Providence 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.