Tooele, Utah

Area Profile

38,405 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Tooele, in Tooele County.

59out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 49% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 18% of 4,199 cities measured73
Schools3,595th of 4,162 cities measured21
GrowthTop 26% of 4,224 cities measured62
Housing affordabilityTop 37% of 4,218 cities measured71
Climate3,961st of 4,225 cities measured55
Physical resilience2,561st of 4,226 cities measured47
Access2,480th of 4,226 cities measured90
Economic stabilityTop 24% of 4,226 cities measured70
The quick read

Tooele ranks in the top 18% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.9% and median household income of $96,221.

In the public schools here, 37% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 22.0 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 220 units authorized over the past twelve months, 32% below the prior year.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
38,405
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$96,221
Top 20% nationally
Density
1,593/sq mi
24.1 sq mi of land
Median age
32.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Utah
Nearest major airport
SLC
24 mi · Salt Lake City Intl
Median home value
$381,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.9%, lower than in 65% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.2% over the past year, to 21,545 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsTooele County, UT’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$65,85937th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftTooele County, UT’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$60,46725th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$6,5252024 ACS 5-Year$96,221Top 20%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,5502024 ACS 5-Year$34,560Top 48%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year5.7%Top 27%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.5 min2024 ACS 5-Year34.1 minBottom 19%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year18.6%Bottom 45%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year67.4%22nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202621,545Bottom 25%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+4.5%Top 7%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026+1.2%Top 14%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202622,41325th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year82.1%Top 35%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageSalt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$71,660Top 41%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageSalt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$55,240Top 34%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year1.6%88th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026−0.3%Top 37%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.9%Top 35%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year13.8%73rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/074.52.4
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.9% in July 2026. It has been holding roughly steady, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. 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

202120222023202496k77k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $96,221 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 — Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Customer Service Representatives26,620$45,410
General and Operations Managers20,870$103,710
Retail Salespersons20,330$34,420
Fast Food and Counter Workers19,590$29,070
Software Developers19,040$129,600
Office Clerks, General16,260$45,220

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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 22.0 students for every full-time teacher across 17 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
19
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
22.0
across 17 of them
Math proficiency
37.4%
Bottom 23% in Utah
Reading proficiency
43.0%
Bottom 26% in Utah
The 12 largest of 19 public schools, by enrollment.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Stansbury HighTooele District2,31430.425%53%
Tooele HighTooele District1,90024.727%38%
Excelsior Academy · charterExcelsior Academy1,40658.644%44%
Clarke N. Johnsen Jr HighTooele District84021.049%47%
Sterling SchoolTooele District77220.326%33%
Tooele Jr HighTooele District76917.144%30%
Stansbury Park SchoolTooele District71223.759%52%
Overlake SchoolTooele District69021.644%44%
Scholar Academy · charterScholar Academy69023.048%45%
Northlake SchoolTooele District68419.539%36%
Old Mill SchoolTooele District66521.551%50%
Middle Canyon SchoolTooele District57122.045%43%

24.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Utah’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 3% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 97.1, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area is up 33% over five years, and up 2.4% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $2,175 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.57% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,241, close to the $1,214 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,241 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $49,600 a year, about 52% of the median household income here of $96,221.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,214 a month.

A median home at $381,400 costs 3.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $107,196, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
97.1

Prices here run about 3% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
27.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,241
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,214
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$381,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Tooele’s median household income of $96,221, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area’s figure202397.1Top 33%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+2.4%37th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+33.4%24th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+118.7%85th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year3.6Bottom 23%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year78.9%56th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3042024 ACS 5-Year12,75595th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$946Top 18%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,667Top 27%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,241Top 24%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$872024 ACS 5-Year$1,214Bottom 31%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,2792024 ACS 5-Year$381,40081st percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$852024 ACS 5-Year$2,17559th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$4,8372024 ACS 5-Year$107,196Top 22%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.03%2024 ACS 5-Year0.57%17th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year27.9%Top 48%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±272024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year3.1%27th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1732024 ACS 5-Year40187th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

62/ 100
Top 26% of 4,224 published city profiles
Permitting has been falling for the last 2 years of a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

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 14% since 2020, reaching 40,919 in 2024.

Federal tax returns show Tooele County, which contains Tooele, gained about 2.0% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $65,859, above the $60,467 of households that moved out.

At 5.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
220
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
5.7
Top 25% nationally
Year over year
−32%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
25.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202441k36k
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. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+2.0%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
27%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$65,859
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$60,467
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Salt Lake County, UT 2,932 people · 53% of arrivals
  2. Davis County, UT 387 people · 7.0% of arrivals
  3. Utah County, UT 331 people · 6.0% of arrivals
  4. Elko County, NV 80 people · 1.5% of arrivals
  5. Washington County, UT 70 people · 1.3% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Salt Lake County, UT 1,358 people · 33% of departures
  2. Utah County, UT 383 people · 9.3% of departures
  3. Davis County, UT 213 people · 5.2% of departures
  4. Weber County, UT 139 people · 3.4% of departures
  5. Elko County, NV 116 people · 2.8% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Tooele County, UT. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

202020212022202320242025617256
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−12%).

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 24°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 15.5 inches, including 51.9 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 46, in the Good band, and about 12 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SALT LAKE CITY INTL AP, 24.2 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND2.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year772024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals15.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals51.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals24°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals41991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year122024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year462024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals50°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
46
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
77
90th percentile index
Days above 100
12
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

47 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are wildfire, earthquake and inland flooding, with wildfire alone responsible for 52% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

WildfireHigh
EarthquakeHigh
Heat waveModerate

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

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.

Violent crime
384
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,539
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Tooele's police department reported 384 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,539.

Tooele County has a modeled homicide rate of about 2.3 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 17.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 19.5 per 100,000 residents in Tooele County.

Homicide
2.3
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
17.1
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
19.5
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
20.7
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Tooele’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Tooele (Tooele County) rather than Tooele itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Salt Lake City Intl at 24 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year94.0%Top 30%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle24 miBottom 36%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle6Top 27%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year4.6%Top 34%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Salt Lake City IntlSLC24 mi12,002 ft
Provo MuniPVU38 mi8,603 ft
Ogden-HinckleyOGD48 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.

Customize your score

What matters to you?

Choose what you weight most heavily. Nothing is saved to an account — your preferences stay in this browser, and the Area Score never changes.

Area Score
59
Your Score
—

Select one or more priorities to see how this location scores against them.

Other cities in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Salt Lake CitySalt Lake County208,00761Salt Lake City vs Tooele
West Valley CitySalt Lake County138,43755West Valley City vs Tooele
West JordanSalt Lake County116,69261West Jordan vs Tooele
SandySalt Lake County94,29161
South JordanSalt Lake County82,68669
MillcreekSalt Lake County63,64867
HerrimanSalt Lake County59,34665
TaylorsvilleSalt Lake County58,67853
DraperSalt Lake County50,27862
MurraySalt Lake County50,18856
RivertonSalt Lake County45,45765
Kearns metro townshipSalt Lake County37,69661

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.

Compare

Put Tooele side by side with a similar place.

Tooele vs PaysonTooele vs Cottonwood Heights

Moving to Tooele from somewhere else?

You get the difference in prices, rent and weather, and the income that would keep pace.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Tooele

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Tooele with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
8407459,706$108,341$422,60060