Eagle Mountain, Utah

Area Profile

53,290 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Eagle Mountain, in Utah County.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 41% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 21% of 3,904 published cities71
Schools2011th of 2,668 published cities32
GrowthTop 5% of 2,973 published cities79
Housing affordability2498th of 4,223 published cities75
Climate4160th of 4,223 published cities52
Physical resilience2414th of 4,182 published cities49
AccessTop 37% of 4,226 published cities95
Economic stabilityTop 1% of 4,226 published cities87
The quick read

Eagle Mountain ranks in the top 21% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.1% and median household income of $113,648.

Residential permitting has slowed: 883 units authorized over the past twelve months, 16% below the prior year.

A major airport is 17 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
53,290
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$113,648
Top 13% nationally
Density
1,045/sq mi
51.0 sq mi of land
Median age
23.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Utah County
Utah
Metro area
Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT
Nearest major airport
PVU
17 mi · Provo Muni
Median home value
$518,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 59% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.6% over the past year, to 24,548 employed residents.

38% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 87% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,322$113,648Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,877$31,697Bottom 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.6%Bottom 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute35.3 minTop 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher37.8%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment24,548Bottom 32%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.6%Top 11%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.6%Top 47%June 2026
Labor force25,604Bottom 32%June 2026
Labor force participation75.9%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$64,230Bottom 28%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,010Bottom 22%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.1%Bottom 40%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 41%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/064.21.7
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.1% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024114k92k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $113,648 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers12,060$28,710
Retail Salespersons8,710$33,120
General and Operations Managers7,910$95,790
Software Developers7,870$131,210
Customer Service Representatives7,780$39,560
Office Clerks, General6,540$43,080

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

37% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 43% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 24.0 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
24.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
37.1%
Bottom 31% in Utah
Reading proficiency
42.7%
Bottom 49% in Utah
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Cedar Valley HighAlpine District3,30027.3
Frontier Middle SchoolAlpine District1,78127.430%46%
Desert SkyAlpine District1,09622.8
Brookhaven SchoolAlpine District1,07722.440%37%
Pony Express SchoolAlpine District99522.630%38%
Hidden Hollow SchoolAlpine District94324.852%52%
Silver Lake ElementaryAlpine District87024.940%40%
John Hancock Charters School Eagle Mountain · charterJohn Hancock Charter School86418.0
Mountain Trails SchoolAlpine District84622.334%42%
Black Ridge SchoolAlpine District84222.840%47%
Ranches Academy · charterRanches Academy36020.061%55%
Rockwell Charter High School · charterRockwell Charter High School31522.510%10%

20.5% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Utah’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,020 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.6 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
21.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,020
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$518,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.56Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate84.7%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±42812,942Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$103$2,020Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$22,593$518,100Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.3%Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate1.5%Bottom 14%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
79/ 100
Top 5% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 36% since 2020, reaching 60,575 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 16.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
883
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
16.6
Top 5% nationally
Year over year
−16%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202461k45k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202120222023202420252k797
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−19%).

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 13°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 12.5 inches, including 33.6 inches of snow.

0°20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FAIRFIELD, 5.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation12.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall33.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low13°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months41991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

49 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, wildfire and heat wave.

WildfireHigh
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate
AvalancheModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, winter weather, inland flooding, strong wind, volcanic activity, drought, tornado, ice storm, cold wave, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. Reported crime is also easy to misread: agency participation varies year to year, and a city that draws a large daytime workforce carries incidents its residents did not generate.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 17 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Provo MuniPVU17 mi8,603 ft
Salt Lake City IntlSLC33 mi12,002 ft
Ogden-HinckleyOGD61 mi8,107 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
ProvoUtah County114,76655vs Eagle Mountain
OremUtah County97,18257vs Eagle Mountain
LehiUtah County85,17369vs Eagle Mountain
Saratoga SpringsUtah County48,42568vs Eagle Mountain
Spanish ForkUtah County44,94664vs Eagle Mountain
Pleasant GroveUtah County37,85265vs Eagle Mountain
American ForkUtah County37,10967vs Eagle Mountain
SpringvilleUtah County35,84957vs Eagle Mountain
PaysonUtah County23,03959vs Eagle Mountain
HighlandUtah County20,11965vs Eagle Mountain
SantaquinUtah County16,43669vs Eagle Mountain
VineyardUtah County14,44669vs Eagle Mountain

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Eagle Mountain

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
8400552,530$113,43765