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SheetUT-SOUTH-OGDEN-UT · South Ogden, UT 17,563 pop · income 63rd 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 South Ogden
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest South Ogden on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Morganton · lowest
49,434
Morganton · lowest
49,434 median HH income
27.7% of the leader · rank #1
Lake Mohawk · near
81,538
Lake Mohawk · near
81,538 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #2
Chippewa Lake · near
81,542
Chippewa Lake · near
81,542 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #3
South Ogden · this city
81,543
South Ogden · this city
81,543 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #4
Hokes Bluff · near
81,544
Hokes Bluff · near
81,544 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #5
Wahoo · near
81,544
Wahoo · near
81,544 median HH income
45.6% 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 South Ogden 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: 17,563.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
South Ogden - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, South Ogden lands in the 63rd percentile for household income and the 60th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
63rd
percentile, household income
74th
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
60th
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: South Ogden, UT
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 17,563 residents in South Ogden, a small town within Utah. The typical household in South Ogden brings in $81,543 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.4%. South Ogden's housing stock carries a median value of $371,100, and the median resident age is 33.1 years. 33.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 3 residential building permits were authorized in South Ogden (Construction Slowdown), down 94% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. South Ogden reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1093.6 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Monthly utility costs average around $178 across Utah, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 South Ogden'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 population change to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For South Ogden, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is South Ogden growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +216 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 3 housing units authorized in 2024. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in South Ogden?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in South Ogden?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1093.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 52% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for South Ogden?
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.
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Heber (17,438 residents, $107,784 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 New Philadelphia, OH (17,563 residents); Lebanon, IN (17,575 residents); Bryn Mawr-Skyway, WA (17,577 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in South Ogden?
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 7.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.6×
Home value
$371,100
Household income
$81,543
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 7.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.9 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Utah average
C
City profile score · South Ogden, UT
55/100
5 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.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$81,543
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C
147 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
7.4%
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.
South Ogden profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 33.2%
Household income: 61/100 (C+) · $81,543
Violent crime: 59/100 (C) · 147 /100k
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.4%
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Where South Ogden sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
South Ogden'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 - South Ogden highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
South Ogden, UT (this city): home $371,100, crime 1,094/100k
New Philadelphia, OH : home $164,600, crime 628/100k
Lebanon, IN : home $179,200, crime 1,296/100k
Hernando, MS : home $282,200, crime 565/100k
Lake St. Louis, MO : home $375,300, crime 662/100k
Heber, UT : home $571,300, crime 1,122/100k
Bluffdale, UT : home $652,000, crime 690/100k
Centerville, UT : home $492,700, crime 1,512/100k
How does South Ogden compare to other US cities?
Where South Ogden sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income63% higher than other cities
Home value74% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
Safety60% 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: South Ogden ranks #32 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 South Ogden 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 South Ogden near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, South Ogden ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares South Ogden only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#161 of 293
45th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#161 of 301
47th percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#88 of 310
72nd percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#128 of 310
58th 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
63rd percentile nationally for median household income · 60th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
South Ogden's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
South Ogden'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 South Ogden's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$371,10026th percentilemore affordable than 26% 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
South Ogden'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
#12,081 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,380 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.6×, South Ogden sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,081 of 15,516 and #2,380 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$81,543South Ogden, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context South Ogden, 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 South Ogden, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
17,563
Median Income
$81,543
Median Home Value
$371,100
Median Age
33.1
Poverty Rate
7.4%
Labor force participation
64.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1093.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
146.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
947.0
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
South Ogden's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
17,494 residents
2021
17,568 residents
2022
17,731 residents
2023
17,762 residents
2024
17,824 residents
2025
17,710 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
3
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
51
3
48
$5.4M
2020
85
12
73
$14.1M
2021
193
45
148
$38.3M
2022
91
7
84
$17.7M
2023
20
13
7
$6.8M
2024
3
1
2
$1.0M
Permit volume decreased 94% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.0%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
13.0%
Other
0.6%
Based on 8,982 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 South Ogden. 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 South Ogden 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 South Ogden sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How South Ogden 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, 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.