Scores by category

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

Safety90#1,573/15,637
Economy41#9,232/15,631
Housing71#4,387/14,977
Health77#3,534/15,609
Healthcare49#7,916/15,650
Environment93#1,005/15,453
Education89#1,707/15,649
Infrastructure59#6,462/15,650
Community40#9,343/15,651
Leisure & amenities22#12,245/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Logan, Utah ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Cache 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

Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Utah 4.2United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCache County value
Average commute time · low15.2 min
98/100Utah 22.1 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Reading scores · high3.42
96/100Utah 3.18United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCache County value
Math scores · high3.48
95/100Utah 3.13United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCache County value
Injury deaths · low53 /100k
94/100Utah 70 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCache County value
Hot days · low3 days
92/100Utah 39 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCache County value

Weaknesses

Social associations · low2.5 /10k
1/100Utah 3.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCache County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.5 /10k
3/100Utah 5.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCache County value
Students per teacher · high22.0×
3/100Utah 21.6×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsCache County value
Drought exposure · high96%
4/100Utah 98%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAACache County value
Pharmacies · low0.6 /10k
5/100Utah 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCache County value
Home price to income ratio · high6.3×
9/100Utah 5.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077

Trends

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

PopulationRising
50,863 (2015-2019) → 54,907 (2020-2024)
+8%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
3.3 /1k (2021) → 11.6 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+246%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$41,833 (2015-2019) → $60,687 (2020-2024)
+45%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
82.3% (2015-2019) → 89.7% (2020-2024)
+7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
29.4% (2015-2019) → 22.2% (2020-2024)
−7.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
4.7× (2015-2019) → 6.3× (2020-2024)
+33%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, Logan, Utah improved on 5 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 8 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved5

Household income+45%$41,833 → $60,687
Poverty−4.5 points26.8% → 22.3%
Child poverty−7.2 points29.4% → 22.2%
Bachelor's++3.4 points36.9% → 40.3%
Broadband+7.4 points82.3% → 89.7%

Declined1

Price / income+1.6×4.7× → 6.3×

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Logan, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	14.4 min2015-2019	15.2 min2020-2024	+0.8 min	Within the margin of error	38%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.9%2015-2019	40.3%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Improved	55%
Broadband subscriptions	82.3%2015-2019	89.7%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Improved	46%
Child poverty rate	29.4%2015-2019	22.2%2020-2024	−7.2 points	Improved	75%
Effective property tax rate	0.63%2015-2019	0.47%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	50%
High school diploma or higher	90.0%2015-2019	91.9%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Home price to income ratio	4.7×2015-2019	6.3×2020-2024	+1.6×	Declined	8%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4322015-2019	0.4072020-2024	−0.025	Within the margin of error	71%
Median household income	$41,8332015-2019	$60,6872020-2024	+45%	Improved	80%
Poverty rate	26.8%2015-2019	22.3%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Improved	78%
Public transit commuters	3.5%2015-2019	4.0%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Rent as share of income	30.0%2015-2019	29.1%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Rent-burdened households	50.0%2015-2019	47.5%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Unemployment rate	2.8%2015-2019	2.6%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.8%2015-2019	10.0%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	33%

“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 Logan, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Logan, 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, Logan, Utah itself moved +4.3 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

54,907 residents (±49)

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

18,444 households (±445)

Logan, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k14%2,541
$25k–50k27%4,971
$50k–75k20%3,684

Homes

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

Owners and renters

18,444 households (±445)

Logan, Utah
Utah share

Own37%6,864
Rent63%11,580

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

31,250 workers (±740)

Logan, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone64%20,120
Carpool8.3%2,593
Public transit4.0%†1,256

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 Logan, UT-ID

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 Cache County, the county holding most of Logan's residents.

Cache County has 4,140 employer establishments, 289 for every 10,000 residents (1.17× the US rate of 248; 1.05× Utah's), with 56,328 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,378. The Census Bureau also counts 11,862 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 4,140; 11,862 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 289; US 248 · Utah 277
Paid employees: 56,328
Average annual pay: $50,378; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	441	30.8	1.99×More than typical	2,549	$58,728	590
Ambulatory health care services	428	29.9	1.44×More than typical	3,136	$53,819	376
Lessors of real estate	271	18.9	1.54×More than typical	663	$49,932	1,725
Construction of buildings	197	13.8	1.82×More than typical	930	$51,668	283
Restaurants and other eating places	182	12.7	0.69×Fewer than typical	4,091	$18,109	34
Management, scientific and technical consulting	156	10.9	1.63×More than typical	767	$42,538	541
Services to buildings and dwellings	151	10.6	1.57×More than typical	745	$40,268	540
Offices of other health practitioners	146	10.2	1.68×More than typical	561	$31,112	226
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	140	9.8	3.11×More than typical	658	$47,125	92
Real estate agents and brokers	121	8.5	1.74×More than typical	133	$33,827	237
Offices of physicians	120	8.4	1.30×More than typical	846	$96,699	58
Building equipment contractors	117	8.2	1.36×More than typical	1,060	$75,755	79

Rank places for an industry Open Cache County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 143,021 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 $44.9M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Logan, Utah: $818 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $44.9M; −20% vs FY2025
Per resident: $818; US $1,994
Sole-source: 86%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Department of the Air Force$28.2M63%
Missile Defense Agency$6.8M15%
Department of the Navy$3.7M8.2%
Agricultural Research Service$1.7M3.7%
National Institutes of Health$1.4M3.1%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.2M2.6%
Agricultural Marketing Service$1M2.3%
Forest Service$313K0.7%

Top recipients

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY SPACE DYNAMICS LABORATORY$39.8M89%
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$1.6M3.5%
GOSSNER FOODS, INC$1.1M2.5%
BML CONSTRUCTION LLC$820.1K1.8%
HALDRUP USA CORP$349.4K0.8%

Spending by fiscal year

18.6MFY2017
34.4MFY2018
46MFY2019
40.7MFY2020
40.3MFY2021
46.6MFY2022
54.5MFY2023
55.3M

Top industries (NAICS)

Scientific research and development services · 5417$26.3M58%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$11.7M26%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$3.4M7.6%
Dairy product manufacturing · 3115$1.1M2.5%
Ventilation, heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration equipment manufacturing · 3334$820.1K1.8%

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Logan, Utah

TO AWARD A BASE TASK ORDER.$2.6M
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY· Cache County, UT· Research & development· Mar 29, 2021 – Aug 25, 2026· 75N93021F00003
RC18-1034$1.5M
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY· Cache County, UT· Research & development· Jul 13, 2018 – Oct 15, 2025· W912HQ18C0033
TASK A20 - INTERVENTIONAL AGENT TESTING AGAINST HIGH CONTAINMENT VIRUSES$1.2M
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY· Cache County, UT· Research & development· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 75N93026F00001
NEW TASK ORDER AWARD FOR HAMSTER MODEL FOR HUMAN ADENOVIRUS

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Logan, Utah, so they do not add up across cities.

Logan, Utah's figures are part of those of Cache County, UT ($187.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 24% of that total.

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

See federal money in Cache 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.

Logan, Utah is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Blake D. MooreR-UT-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

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

Cache County88100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Logan, UT-ID87

Other cities and towns in Cache 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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