Census-designated place · Utah County, Utah

Lake Shore, Utah

Lake Shore is a census-designated place in Utah County, Utah, part of the Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT metro area. It has 1,129 residents. Lake Shore, Utah has a quality-of-life score of 85 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,401 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Utah it ranks #42 of 175 cities and towns. It ranks best on poverty rate (low), rent as share of income (low) and adult smoking (low). It ranks worst on students per teacher (high), social associations (low) and unemployment rate (high).

85Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,401 of 15,651 cities and towns
Utah: #42 of 175 in UT
Population: 1,129 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 164.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4942230

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety93#1,147/15,637
Economy92#1,317/15,631
Housing89#1,720/14,977
Health87#2,040/15,609
Healthcare75#3,972/15,650
Environment26#11,406/15,453
Education84#2,523/15,649
Infrastructure96#598/15,650
Community33#10,426/15,651
Leisure & amenities23#11,999/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Lake Shore, Utah ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Utah County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Poverty rate · low0.0%
100/100Utah 8.4%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Rent as share of income · low13.4%
99/100Utah 28.9%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Adult smoking · low7.0%
97/100Utah 10.4%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.296
97/100Utah 0.427United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Preventable hospital stays · low1,502 /100k
96/100Utah 1,640 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteUtah County value
Physical inactivity · low14.6%
96/100Utah 19.2%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Students per teacher · high23.7×
0/100Utah 21.6×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsUtah County value
Social associations · low2.0 /10k
1/100Utah 3.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteUtah County value
Unemployment rate · high20.0%
1/100Utah 3.5%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Drought exposure · high99%
2/100Utah 98%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAUtah County value
Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
2/100Utah 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsUtah County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.5 /10k
3/100Utah 5.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsUtah County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
704 (2015-2019) → 1,129 (2020-2024)
+60%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
16.7% (2015-2019) → 54.2% (2020-2024)
+37 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Unemployment rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 20.0% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
82.5% (2015-2019) → 96.4% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$70,714 (2015-2019) → $99,058 (2020-2024)
+40%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
5.2× (2015-2019) → 7.2× (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Lake Shore, Utah improved on 2 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Bachelor's++37 points16.7% → 54.2%
Broadband+14 points82.5% → 96.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Lake Shore, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	30.6 min2015-2019	21.1 min2020-2024	−9.5 min	Within the margin of error	98%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.7%2015-2019	54.2%2020-2024	+37 points	Improved	100%
Broadband subscriptions	82.5%2015-2019	96.4%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	76%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
High school diploma or higher	96.3%2015-2019	92.5%2020-2024	−3.8 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Home price to income ratio	5.2×2015-2019	7.2×2020-2024	+2.0×	Within the margin of error	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3752015-2019	0.2972020-2024	−0.078	Within the margin of error	92%
Median household income	$70,7142015-2019	$99,0582020-2024	+40%	Within the margin of error	74%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	56%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Lake Shore, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lake Shore, Utah in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Lake Shore, Utah itself moved +16 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,129 residents (±759)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

251 households (±102)

Lake Shore, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k1.6%†4
$25k–50k12%†29
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

251 households (±102)

Lake Shore, Utah
Utah share

Own63%†158
Rent37%†93

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−35.4 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

384 workers (±135)

Lake Shore, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone65%†250
Carpool19%†73
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Utah County, the county holding most of Lake Shore's residents.

Utah County has 17,568 employer establishments, 242 for every 10,000 residents (0.97× the US rate of 248; 0.87× Utah's), with 274,566 paid employees at an average annual pay of $55,792. The Census Bureau also counts 74,541 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 17,568; 74,541 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 242; US 248 · Utah 277
Paid employees: 274,566
Average annual pay: $55,792; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Utah County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	1,629	22.4	1.45×More than typical	17,200	$59,121	3,548
Ambulatory health care services	1,589	21.9	1.05×About typical	16,244	$60,086	2,424
Management, scientific and technical consulting	1,082	14.9	2.22×More than typical	5,048	$62,008	4,885
Lessors of real estate	1,042	14.4	1.17×About typical	3,137	$54,114	8,602
Restaurants and other eating places	973	13.4	0.73×Fewer than typical	21,299	$18,790	212
Construction of buildings	665	9.2	1.21×About typical	4,157	$62,493	1,873
Limited-service restaurants	564	7.8	0.97×About typical	13,488	$17,877	81
Services to buildings and dwellings	534	7.4	1.09×About typical	4,070	$37,650	3,008
Offices of other health practitioners	531	7.3	1.20×About typical	3,034	$34,991	1,375
Real estate agents and brokers	515	7.1	1.46×More than typical	614	$49,336	1,673
Building equipment contractors	490	6.7	1.12×About typical	7,622	$57,076	705
Building finishing contractors	479	6.6	1.74×More than typical	2,421	$50,778	1,049

Rank places for an industry Open Utah County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 726,088 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $19.6K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Lake Shore, Utah: $17.37 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $19.6K; +48% vs FY2025
Per resident: $17.37; US $1,995
Sole-source: 8.1%; US 30%
Single offer: 1.5%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Bureau of Reclamation$8,74745%
Bureau of Land Management$8,20442%
Department of Veterans Affairs$1,5878.1%
Departmental Offices$1,1365.8%
Defense Logistics Agency$2791.4%

Top recipients

PREMIER SEED COMPANY, LLC$8,20442%
WHEELER MACHINERY CO$4,39222%
ALPINE COMPANIES, INC.$3,52518%
COMPASSION MOBILITY LLC$1,5878.1%
MOUNTAIN WEST HELICOPTERS, LLC$1,1365.8%

Spending by fiscal year

8.8KFY2017
12.1KFY2018
7.9KFY2019
3.9KFY2020
4.4KFY2021
5.8KFY2022
59.5KFY2023
38.4KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Forest nurseries and gathering of forest products · 1132$8,20442%
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing · 5324$4,39222%
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying · 2123$4,35522%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$1,5878.1%
Nonscheduled air transportation · 4812$1,1365.8%
Metalworking machinery manufacturing · 3335$300

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Lake Shore, Utah, so they do not add up across cities.

Lake Shore, Utah's figures are part of those of Utah County, UT ($29.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Lake Shore is mostly in Utah County.

See federal money in Utah County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Lake Shore, Utah is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Utah County83100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT82

Other cities and towns in Utah County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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