Woods Cross, Utah

Area Profile

11,531 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Woods Cross, in Davis County.

69out of 100
Area Score
Top 18% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 30% of 4,199 cities measured66
SchoolsTop 32% of 4,162 cities measured63
GrowthTop 26% of 4,224 cities measured62
Housing affordabilityTop 50% of 4,218 cities measured67
Climate3,961st of 4,225 cities measured55
Physical resilienceTop 20% of 4,226 cities measured83
AccessTop 9% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stabilityTop 10% of 4,226 cities measured76
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.3% and median household income $120,543, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Davis County, UT, which contains Woods Cross, rather than for Woods Cross alone.

In the public schools here, 47% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 22.2 students for every teacher.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 47 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 124% on 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
11,531
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$120,543
Top 10% nationally
Density
3,008/sq mi
3.8 sq mi of land
Median age
32.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Utah
Metro area
Nearest major airport
SLC
7 mi · Salt Lake City Intl
Median home value
$497,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Davis County, UT, which contains Woods Cross, is 3.3%, lower than in 87% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Davis County, UT, which contains Woods Cross, fell 1.4% over the past year, to 188,405 employed residents.

34% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 74% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $120,543 is higher than in 90% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsDavis County, UT’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$65,94238th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftDavis County, UT’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$72,94052nd percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$12,9892024 ACS 5-Year$120,543Top 10%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,8872024 ACS 5-Year$46,530Top 21%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year4.5%Top 22%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.6 min2024 ACS 5-Year21.8 minTop 25%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year33.5%Top 26%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year75.8%45th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentDavis County, UT’s figureJuly 2026188,405Top 34%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Davis County, UT’s figureJuly 2026−1.9%Bottom 25%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Davis County, UT’s figureJuly 2026−1.4%Bottom 36%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceDavis County, UT’s figureJuly 2026194,92866th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year85.1%Top 24%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageOgden, UT Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$62,490Bottom 24%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageOgden, UT Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$48,900Bottom 31%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year2.1%90th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Davis County, UT’s figureJuly 2026−0.1%Bottom 49%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateDavis County, UT’s figureJuly 20263.3%Top 13%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year13.4%72nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024121k89k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $120,543 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 — Ogden, UT

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers9,880$28,030
Retail Salespersons8,200$33,450
General and Operations Managers5,810$93,610
Office Clerks, General5,790$41,640
Customer Service Representatives4,800$38,670
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators4,710$46,110

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.

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

47% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 56% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 22.2 students for every full-time teacher across 5 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
22.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
47.4%
Top 30% in Utah
Reading proficiency
55.6%
Top 14% in Utah
All 5 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Woods Cross HighDavis District1,55523.648%66%
Legacy Preparatory Academy · charterLegacy Preparatory Academy1,01618.844%47%
West Bountiful SchoolDavis District66023.656%52%
Odyssey SchoolDavis District55320.551%56%
Woods Cross SchoolDavis District53228.038%46%

17.0% 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 4% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 96.1, 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 Ogden, UT Metro Area is up 33% over five years, and up 3.7% 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 $2,608 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.52% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,614, below the $1,771 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,614 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $64,600 a year, about 54% of the median household income here of $120,543.

The typical renter household here spends 29% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,771 a month.

A median home at $497,400 costs 3.7 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $135,931, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
96.1

Prices here run about 4% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Ogden, 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
29.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.7×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,614
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,771
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$497,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Woods Cross’s median household income of $120,543, 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 Ogden, UT Metro Area’s figure202396.1Top 32%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Ogden, UT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+3.7%62nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Ogden, UT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+33.2%23rd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Ogden, UT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+124.8%92nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.42024 ACS 5-Year3.7Bottom 22%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year81.0%61st percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2002024 ACS 5-Year3,57085th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,281Top 43%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,163Top 49%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,614Top 46%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1652024 ACS 5-Year$1,771Bottom 12%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$33,3572024 ACS 5-Year$497,40089th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1312024 ACS 5-Year$2,60867th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$9,5142024 ACS 5-Year$135,931Top 10%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.04%2024 ACS 5-Year0.52%13th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year29.3%Bottom 44%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±202024 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-Year3.2%28th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1032024 ACS 5-Year11368th 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 rising 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 been broadly flat since 2020, at 11,493 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 47 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 11% are in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show that people moving in from elsewhere in the US and people moving out roughly balanced across Davis County, which contains Woods Cross, in the most recent year. Households that moved in reported an average income of $65,942, below the $72,940 of households that moved out.

At 4.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
47
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.1
Top 35% nationally
Year over year
+124%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
10.6%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202412k11k
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 holding roughly steady, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
0.0%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
39%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$65,942
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$72,940
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Salt Lake County, UT 5,243 people · 25% of arrivals
  2. Weber County, UT 4,420 people · 21% of arrivals
  3. Utah County, UT 1,344 people · 6.3% of arrivals
  4. Cache County, UT 553 people · 2.6% of arrivals
  5. Clark County, NV 309 people · 1.5% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Weber County, UT 4,908 people · 23% of departures
  2. Salt Lake County, UT 3,834 people · 18% of departures
  3. Utah County, UT 1,571 people · 7.4% of departures
  4. Cache County, UT 545 people · 2.6% of departures
  5. Washington County, UT 497 people · 2.3% 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 Davis County, UT. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

202020212022202320242025972.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−59%).

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 15 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, 7.1 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND2.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year842024 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 year152024 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
84
90th percentile index
Days above 100
15
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

83 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, inland flooding and lightning, with earthquake alone responsible for 70% of it. Inland flooding and lightning are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 80% of measured US cities.

EarthquakeModerate
LandslideModerate
WildfireModerate
Strong windModerate

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

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
244
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,383
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.

Woods Cross's police department reported 244 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,383.

Davis County has a modeled homicide rate of about 1.8 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.6 per 100,000 residents in Davis County.

Homicide
1.8
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.6
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
12.6
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
21.2
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 Woods Cross’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 Woods Cross (Davis County) rather than Woods Cross 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 7 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year93.4%Top 33%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle7 miTop 14%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle6Top 27%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year2.9%Top 24%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Salt Lake City IntlSLC7 mi12,002 ft
Ogden-HinckleyOGD23 mi8,107 ft
Provo MuniPVU46 mi8,603 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 Ogden, UT

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
OgdenWeber County87,41355Ogden vs Woods Cross
LaytonDavis County83,28667Layton vs Woods Cross
BountifulDavis County45,02365Bountiful vs Woods Cross
RoyWeber County38,99355
SyracuseDavis County35,48870
ClearfieldDavis County33,52358
KaysvilleDavis County33,05372
FarmingtonDavis County25,38973
ClintonDavis County23,61268
North Salt LakeDavis County23,47462
North OgdenWeber County21,94761
West HavenWeber County21,56358

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.

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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 Woods Cross

1 ZIP area

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

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
8408716,808$132,774$531,90069