84780Washington, Utah

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 84780.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 40% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 5% of 6,210 published ZIP areas83
SchoolsTop 41% of 4,422 published ZIP areas58
GrowthTop 1% of 5,428 published ZIP areas90
Housing affordability4869th of 6,685 published ZIP areas64
Climate6741st of 6,789 published ZIP areas49
Physical resilience5672nd of 6,709 published ZIP areas21
AccessTop 43% of 6,791 published ZIP areas95
Economic stability3829th of 6,742 published ZIP areas56
The quick read

84780 ranks in the top 5% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.5% and median household income of $91,963.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 1,154 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 57% on the prior year.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by wildfire, inland flooding and earthquake.

At a glance

Population
32,366
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$91,963
Top 25% nationally
Density
524/sq mi
61.8 sq mi of land
Median age
38.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Washington
Utah
Metro area
St. George, UT
Nearest major airport
SGU
7 mi · St George Rgnl
Median home value
$570,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.5% is lower than 86% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.5% over the past year, to 16,656 employed residents.

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 75% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$12,515$91,963Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,547$46,454Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate5.5%Bottom 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute18.5 minBottom 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher35.8%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment16,656Bottom 14%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)7.9%Top 1%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.5%Top 18%June 2026
Labor force17,252Bottom 13%June 2026
Labor force participation59.8%Bottom 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$55,920Bottom 7%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$45,140Bottom 8%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 47%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.5%Bottom 14%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202494k79k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $91,963 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 — St. George, UT
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers3,460$28,270
Retail Salespersons3,050$33,150
Office Clerks, General2,560$44,880
General and Operations Managers2,050$82,850
Stockers and Order Fillers1,950$36,940
Registered Nurses1,910$86,380

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Washington, UT, the city containing this ZIP code.

50% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 46% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 22.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
22.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
50.1%
Top 23% in Utah
Reading proficiency
45.9%
Top 37% in Utah
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Crimson Cliffs HighWashington District1,40126.9
Crimson Cliffs MiddleWashington District93323.975%61%
Washington Fields IntermediateWashington District91324.7
Majestic Fields SchoolWashington District73222.241%42%
Horizon SchoolWashington District62622.472%51%
Riverside SchoolWashington District61021.042%46%
Coral Canyon SchoolWashington District55820.728%33%
Washington SchoolWashington District46822.341%38%
St. George Academy · charterSt. George Academy22915.335%45%
Mountain View Montessori · charterMountain View Montessori21014.024%30%

22.2% 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 $1,614 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 6.2 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
21.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
6.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,614
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$570,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income6.21Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.7%Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±51713,761Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$144$1,614Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$28,194$570,800Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.1%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate16.4%Top 34%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
90/ 100
Top 1% of 5,428 published city profiles

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.

At 35.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
1,154
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
35.7
Top 1% nationally
Year over year
+57%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
29.2%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Washington, UT, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 102°F and January a low of 28°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 9.3 inches, including 1.2 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, in the Good band, and about 2 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ST GEORGE, 7.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index67.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation9.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low28°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high102°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months41991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing46°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
67
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
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

21 / 100
Physical resilience

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

WildfireHigh
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

Washington County records 2.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.8 per 100,000 residents in Washington County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
23.2
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 Washington 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 84780 rather than 84780 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

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 7 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
St George RgnlSGU7 mi9,300 ft
Cedar City RgnlCDC44 mi8,653 ft
Grand Canyon Ntl ParkGCN110 mi8,999 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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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)
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
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
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.

84780 vs Washington

How this ZIP area compares with Washington as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

84780
Washington
Median household income
$91,963
vs
$91,853
Per capita income
$46,454
vs
$46,453
Population density
524/sq mi
vs
895/sq mi
Median home value
$570,800
vs
$570,400
Median gross rent
$1,614
vs
$1,614
Homeownership rate
74.7%
vs
74.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher
35.8%
vs
35.8%
Poverty rate
5.5%
vs
5.5%
Median age
38.5
vs
38.5

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.