West · Utah · pop 210K
Salt Lake City, UT
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in UT, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,111 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,301 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,348 left over.
The job market looks healthy: 2.8% unemployment and 2.2% job growth over the past year.
Expect summer highs near 93°F, winter lows around 23°F, and about 222 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The Salt Lake City fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,763/mo
Typical rent
$1,530/mo
Home value ÷ income
7.6×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,440/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,530/mo
- Median home value
- $560,000
- Median household income
- $74,000
- Population
- 210,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 2.8%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 2.2%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 700
- Property crime rate
- 5,300
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 93°F
- Avg. winter low
- 23°F
- Sunny days / year
- 222
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈20/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈6/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈32/yr
- Annual rain
- 16"
- Annual snow
- 54"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+15
- Int'l airport
- ≈6 mi
- Walkability
- 59/100
- Disaster risk
- 55/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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