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Ranked · Buying a home · Utah

Best cities for buying a home in Utah

Cities of 25,000+ residents, scored with the “Buying a home” weighting the live tool uses, heaviest on median home price, property tax rate, home price yoy, cost of living index. Scores are relative to this set; open the tool to change the weights and re-rank.

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Top 10 · computed ranking

  1. 1.Tooele, UT38k residents

    82/100

    median home price: $381,400 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: -0.2%

  2. 2.Kearns, UT38k residents

    77/100

    median home price: $373,700 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +0.1%

  3. 3.Ogden, UT87k residents

    74/100

    median home price: $355,600 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +1.1%

  4. 4.Roy, UT39k residents

    74/100

    median home price: $383,000 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +1.7%

  5. 5.West Valley City, UT138k residents

    73/100

    median home price: $419,100 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +0.9%

  6. 6.Magna, UT30k residents

    73/100

    median home price: $376,200 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +1.8%

  7. 7.Eagle Mountain, UT53k residents

    72/100

    median home price: $518,100 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +0.1%

  8. 8.South Salt Lake, UT26k residents

    71/100

    median home price: $410,200 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +0.2%

  9. 9.Clearfield, UT34k residents

    70/100

    median home price: $373,900 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +2.0%

  10. 10.Taylorsville, UT59k residents

    69/100

    median home price: $433,800 · property tax rate: 0.55% · home price yoy: +1.4%

Methodology: each city is scored 0–100 by min–max normalizing every weighted facet across this candidate set (direction-aware), identical math to the tool's “Best fit” tab. A different weighting produces a different order, which is the point: this is a starting shortlist, not a verdict.

Questions & answers
Which city is best for buying a home in Utah?
Tooele, UT ranks first with a fit score of 82/100, followed by Kearns (77) and Ogden (74), using the "Buying a home" weighting.
How is this ranking calculated?
Each of the 10 candidate cities (25,000+ residents) is scored 0 to 100 by min-max normalizing the weighted facets, heaviest on median home price, property tax rate, home price yoy, cost of living index, across this set. Change the weights in the live tool and the order changes with them.