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Place dossier plate
SheetUT-SYRACUSE-UT · Syracuse, UT 34,009 pop · income 91st pct · 66 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 Syracuse
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Syracuse on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Eastpointe · lowest
58,196
Eastpointe · lowest
58,196 median HH income
26.5% of the leader · rank #1
Walpole · near
132,411
Walpole · near
132,411 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #2
Holly Springs · near
132,435
Holly Springs · near
132,435 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #3
Syracuse · this city
132,459
Syracuse · this city
132,459 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #4
King Salmon · near
132,500
King Salmon · near
132,500 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #5
Manton · near
132,535
Manton · near
132,535 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #6
Lexington · highest
219,402
Lexington · highest
219,402 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 Syracuse 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: 34,009.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Syracuse - the verdict
Syracuse ranks in the 91st percentile for household income and the 83rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
91st
percentile, household income
86th
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
83rd
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: Syracuse, UT
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 34,009 residents in Syracuse, a small city within Utah. The typical household in Syracuse brings in $132,459 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.2%. Typical homes in Syracuse are valued around $531,600, and the median resident age is 28.7 years. Educational attainment runs 38.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 75.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 319 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), up 3% from five years earlier. Syracuse reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 552.8 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: 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Utah's average monthly utility costs around $178 (state average). 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 Syracuse'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 within-city variation to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime 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 Syracuse, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 66 Census tracts reveal inside Syracuse?
PlainCities matches 66 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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 8 public schools within the city match. 38.2% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Syracuse?
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 Cottonwood Heights (32,984 residents, $116,583 income); Clearfield (32,895 residents, $75,429 income); Kaysville (32,861 residents, $128,996 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Eastpointe, MI (34,003 residents); Kearney, NE (34,024 residents); Westlake, OH (34,036 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Syracuse?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 552.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 76% 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.
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 Syracuse growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +7,520 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +23.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 319 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.
2020 estimate
32,389
2025 estimate
39,909
Period change
+23.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Syracuse?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.0%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
74.0%
Work from home
15.3%
Public transit
0.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 17,120 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Syracuse?
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 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.0×
Home value
$531,600
Household income
$132,459
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+
$132,459
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A-
52 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B+
3.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B
38.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Syracuse profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $132,459
Violent crime: 83/100 (A-) · 52 /100k
Poverty rate: 77/100 (B+) · 3.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.2%
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Where Syracuse sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Syracuse'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 - Syracuse highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Syracuse, UT (this city): home $531,600, crime 553/100k
Eastpointe, MI : home $129,100, crime 2,992/100k
Kearney, NE : home $235,800, crime 1,926/100k
Westlake, OH : home $336,100, crime 679/100k
Crown Point, IN : home $272,800, crime 608/100k
Lexington, MA : home $1,147,900, crime 387/100k
Weatherford, TX : home $285,000, crime 1,712/100k
Cottonwood Heights, UT : home $641,900, crime 1,702/100k
Clearfield, UT : home $342,000, crime 1,473/100k
Kaysville, UT : home $583,700, crime 629/100k
Springville, UT : home $429,200, crime 985/100k
How does Syracuse compare to other US cities?
Where Syracuse sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value86% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
Safety83% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Utah alone, Syracuse ranks #7 of 67 Utah cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Syracuse 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 Syracuse near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Syracuse ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Syracuse only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#28 of 293
90th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#70 of 301
77th percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#183 of 310
41st percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#89 of 310
71st 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
91st percentile nationally for median household income · 83rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Syracuse's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Syracuse'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 Syracuse's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$531,60014th percentilemore affordable than 14% 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
Syracuse's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,745 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,000 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.0×, Syracuse sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,745 of 15,516 and #2,000 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
$132,459Syracuse, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Syracuse, 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 Syracuse, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)75.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
34,009
Median Income
$132,459
Median Home Value
$531,600
Median Age
28.7
Poverty Rate
3.2%
Labor force participation
75.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
552.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
51.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
501.1
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Syracuse's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
32,389 residents
2021
33,406 residents
2022
35,579 residents
2023
37,132 residents
2024
38,970 residents
2025
39,909 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
319
housing units authorized
Single-Family
234
detached homes
Multifamily
85
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
310
310
0
$66.5M
2020
373
373
0
$83.5M
2021
866
449
417
$147.2M
2022
526
332
194
$123.1M
2023
566
213
353
$99.9M
2024
319
234
85
$82.9M
Permit volume increased 3% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
8.8%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
15.3%
Other
0.9%
Based on 17,120 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 Syracuse. 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 Syracuse 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 Syracuse sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Syracuse 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.