City · Weber County, Utah

Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, part of the Ogden, UT metro area. It has 87,413 residents. Ogden, Utah has a quality-of-life score of 46 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,505 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Utah it ranks #161 of 175 cities and towns. It ranks best on preventable hospital stays (low), mental health care shortage (low) and primary care shortage (low). It ranks worst on social associations (low), public libraries (low) and drought exposure (high).

46Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,505 of 15,651 cities and towns
Utah: #161 of 175 in UT
Population: 87,413 (2020-2024)
Land area: 28 mi²
Density: 3,175.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4955980

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety54#7,173/15,637
Economy49#7,951/15,631
Housing72#4,188/14,977
Health42#9,087/15,609
Healthcare62#6,009/15,650
Environment36#9,837/15,453
Education35#10,140/15,649
Infrastructure82#2,828/15,650
Community24#11,971/15,651
Leisure & amenities13#13,646/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Preventable hospital stays · low1,622 /100k
95/100Utah 1,640 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWeber County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Utah 11.1United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWeber County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Utah 3.7United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWeber County value
Public transit commuters · high2.1%
84/100Utah 1.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301
Child care cost burden · low23.1%
84/100Utah 27.1%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWeber County value
Dental care shortage · low0.0
84/100Utah 2.2United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWeber County value

Weaknesses

Social associations · low3.3 /10k
2/100Utah 3.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWeber County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
4/100Utah 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesWeber County value
Drought exposure · high87%
7/100Utah 98%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAWeber County value
Students per teacher · high19.6×
9/100Utah 21.6×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsWeber County value
Grocery stores · low0.9 /10k
11/100Utah 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWeber County value
Depression · high27.8%
12/100Utah 26.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
81.3% (2015-2019) → 93.8% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$50,061 (2015-2019) → $72,575 (2020-2024)
+45%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.4× (2015-2019) → 4.9× (2020-2024)
+44%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
20.8% (2015-2019) → 25.9% (2020-2024)
+5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Poverty rateImproving
17.2% (2015-2019) → 13.7% (2020-2024)
−3.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
83.7% (2015-2019) → 87.0% (2020-2024)
+3.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Ogden, Utah improved on 4 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 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.

Improved4

Household income+45%$50,061 → $72,575
Poverty−3.5 points17.2% → 13.7%
Broadband+13 points81.3% → 93.8%
Bachelor's++5.1 points20.8% → 25.9%

Declined2

Price / income+1.5×3.4× → 4.9×
Commute+2.3 min20.2 min → 22.5 min

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Ogden, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.2 min2015-2019	22.5 min2020-2024	+2.3 min	Declined	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.8%2015-2019	25.9%2020-2024	+5.1 points	Improved	69%
Broadband subscriptions	81.3%2015-2019	93.8%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	71%
Child poverty rate	21.3%2015-2019	19.4%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Effective property tax rate	0.75%2015-2019	0.67%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Little change	30%
High school diploma or higher	83.7%2015-2019	87.0%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Home price to income ratio	3.4×2015-2019	4.9×2020-2024	+1.5×	Declined	9%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4552015-2019	0.4312020-2024	−0.024	Within the margin of error	70%
Median household income	$50,0612015-2019	$72,5752020-2024	+45%	Improved	80%
Poverty rate	17.2%2015-2019	13.7%2020-2024	−3.5 points	Improved	73%
Public transit commuters	2.3%2015-2019	2.1%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Rent as share of income	28.0%2015-2019	28.5%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	51%
Rent-burdened households	44.9%2015-2019	46.4%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Unemployment rate	4.8%2015-2019	4.1%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.3%2015-2019	15.1%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	49%

“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 Ogden, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ogden, 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, Ogden, Utah itself moved +2.4 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

87,413 residents (±37)

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

33,508 households (±627)

Ogden, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k14%4,818
$25k–50k18%6,072
$50k–75k20%6,541

Homes

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

Owners and renters

33,508 households (±627)

Ogden, Utah
Utah share

Own61%20,531
Rent39%12,977

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+3.5 points).

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

45,333 workers (±1,018)

Ogden, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone73%33,133
Carpool9.8%4,447
Public transit2.1%934

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 Ogden, 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 Weber County, the county holding most of Ogden's residents.

Weber County has 6,389 employer establishments, 234 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248; 0.85× Utah's), with 96,241 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,731. The Census Bureau also counts 18,981 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,389; 18,981 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 234; US 248 · Utah 277
Paid employees: 96,241
Average annual pay: $50,731; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	723	26.5	1.71×More than typical	6,779	$66,288	1,168
Ambulatory health care services	601	22	1.06×About typical	5,710	$69,566	606
Lessors of real estate	401	14.7	1.19×About typical	869	$45,504	2,563
Restaurants and other eating places	393	14.4	0.78×Fewer than typical	8,055	$19,086	60
Construction of buildings	280	10.3	1.36×More than typical	1,983	$71,743	550
Services to buildings and dwellings	235	8.6	1.28×More than typical	1,451	$43,408	876
Real estate agents and brokers	224	8.2	1.69×More than typical	271	$42,727	712
Management, scientific and technical consulting	215	7.9	1.17×About typical	1,424	$53,474	726
Building equipment contractors	206	7.6	1.26×More than typical	3,120	$82,414	209
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	206	7.6	2.40×More than typical	1,847	$54,499	173
Limited-service restaurants	203	7.4	0.93×About typical	4,311	$18,675	18
Offices of other health practitioners	189	6.9	1.14×About typical	956	$35,886	337

Rank places for an industry Open Weber County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 272,735 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 $5.9M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Ogden, Utah: $67.62 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $5.9M; −47% vs FY2025
Per resident: $67.62; US $1,994
Sole-source: 16%; US 30%
Single offer: 10%; 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$3.8M65%
Internal Revenue Service$839.3K14%
Defense Logistics Agency$474.2K8.0%
Forest Service$423.5K7.2%
Department of the Army$283.2K4.8%
Department of Veterans Affairs$55.8K0.9%
Drug Enforcement Administration$14.5K0.2%
Agricultural Marketing Service$9,5430.2%

Top recipients

GAUSS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING INC$1.9M32%
AUTOMOTIVE & INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY, LLC$739K13%
FLATWATER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES COMPANY$708.1K12%
RICHARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY$516.6K8.7%
LINCOLN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC.$497.9K8.4%

Spending by fiscal year

11.5MFY2017
17.4MFY2018
20.7MFY2019
10.2MFY2020
8MFY2021
4.8MFY2022
7.8MFY2023
8.7M

Top industries (NAICS)

Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$1.7M29%
Converted paper product manufacturing · 3222$708.1K12%
Paint, coating, and adhesive manufacturing · 3255$661.3K11%
Waste treatment and disposal · 5622$505.1K8.5%
Highway, street, and bridge construction · 2373$416K7.0%
Other professional, scientific, and technical services · 5419$362.6K

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Ogden, Utah

LEASE/RENTAL OF BUILDINGS$223K
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY· Weber County, UT· Construction & real property· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· FA820126FG003

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 Ogden, Utah, so they do not add up across cities.

Ogden, Utah's figures are part of those of Weber County, UT ($3B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.2% of that total.

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

See federal money in Weber 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.

Ogden, 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.

Weber County66100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Ogden, UT79

Other cities and towns in Weber 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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