Tremonton, Utah

Area Profile

11,477 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Tremonton, in Box Elder County.

61out of 100
Area Score
Top 50% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3086th of 3,904 published cities42
GrowthTop 15% of 2,973 published cities71
Housing affordability2475th of 4,223 published cities75
Climate3931st of 4,223 published cities56
Physical resilience2231st of 4,182 published cities55
AccessTop 22% of 4,226 published cities97
Economic stabilityTop 27% of 4,226 published cities71
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 3.7% and the Opportunity signal places Tremonton in the bottom 21%.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 131 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 41% on the prior year.

A major airport is 13 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
11,477
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$74,741
Top 40% nationally
Density
1,379/sq mi
8.3 sq mi of land
Median age
29.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Box Elder County
Utah
Metro area
Brigham City, UT-ID
Nearest major airport
BMC
13 mi · Brigham City Rgnl
Median home value
$364,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 74% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 4.8% over the past year, to 27,224 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,423$74,741Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,729$32,336Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.2%Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.4 minBottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher16.3%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment27,224Bottom 35%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-3.2%Bottom 10%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-4.8%Bottom 2%June 2026
Labor force28,279Bottom 34%June 2026
Labor force participation71.7%Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.1%Top 47%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 26%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202475k63k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $74,741 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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Box Elder County, UT, which contains this city.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,220 takes 20% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.9 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
19.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,220
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$364,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.88Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate65.8%Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2313,912Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$136$1,220Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$24,809$364,900Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.6%Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.2%Bottom 20%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
71/ 100
Top 15% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing — 2 consecutive years, measured from 2022 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 27% since 2020, reaching 12,677 in 2024.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 11% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 11.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
131
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
11.4
Top 10% nationally
Year over year
+41%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
11.5%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202413k10k
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
202220232024202520746
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2022 (−48%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 15°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 15.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 47, in the Good band, and about 5 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

0°20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LOGAN CACHE AP, 17.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND2.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index80.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation15.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low15°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10052024 calendar year
Median air quality index47.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing50°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
47
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
80
90th percentile index
Days above 100
5
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. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

55 / 100
Physical resilience

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

WildfireHigh
EarthquakeModerate
AvalancheModerate
Strong windModerate
DroughtModerate
LandslideModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Box Elder County records 2.8 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 16.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.9 per 100,000 residents in Box Elder County.

Homicide
2.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
28.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Box Elder County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Tremonton rather than Tremonton itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

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.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences 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. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
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

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 13 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Brigham City RgnlBMC13 mi8,900 ft
Logan-CacheLGU18 mi9,020 ft
Ogden-HinckleyOGD37 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 Brigham City, UT-ID

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Brigham CityBox Elder County19,99257vs Tremonton

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
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)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.