City · Duchesne County, Utah

Roosevelt, Utah

Roosevelt is a city in Duchesne County, Utah. It has 7,078 residents. Roosevelt, Utah has a quality-of-life score of 42 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,034 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Utah it ranks #165 of 175 cities and towns. It ranks best on hot days (low), average commute time (low) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), social associations (low) and flu vaccinations (low).

42Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,034 of 15,651 cities and towns
Utah: #165 of 175 in UT
Population: 7,078 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 983.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4964670

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.

Safety24#11,865/15,637
Economy40#9,413/15,631
Housing95#697/14,977
Health29#11,138/15,609
Healthcare9#14,297/15,650
Environment99#144/15,453
Education60#6,233/15,649
Infrastructure48#8,111/15,650
Community32#10,664/15,651
Leisure & amenities15#13,367/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Hot days · low0 days
100/100Utah 39 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDuchesne County value
Average commute time · low14.9 min
97/100Utah 22.1 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.3 µg/m³
95/100Utah 7.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDuchesne County value
Rent-burdened households · low36.0%
95/100Utah 47.2%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Natural hazard risk · low5.2
92/100Utah 47.92025Federal Emergency Management AgencyDuchesne County value
Rent as share of income · low24.2%
92/100Utah 28.9%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Drought exposure · high100%
1/100Utah 98%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAADuchesne County value
Social associations · low2.4 /10k
1/100Utah 3.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDuchesne County value
Flu vaccinations · low22.0%
2/100Utah 44.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDuchesne County value
Mammography screening · low35.0%
8/100Utah 45.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDuchesne County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Utah 4.2United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDuchesne County value
Suicide rate · high24.5 /100k
9/100Utah 20.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataDuchesne County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
43.5% (2015-2019) → 36.0% (2020-2024)
−7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
85.5% (2015-2019) → 90.7% (2020-2024)
+5.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
9.5 /1k (2021) → 7.3 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−22%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$63,479 (2015-2019) → $76,456 (2020-2024)
+20%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.1× (2015-2019) → 3.7× (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
15.6% (2015-2019) → 18.8% (2020-2024)
+3.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Roosevelt, Utah improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 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.

Improved2

Household income+20%$63,479 → $76,456
Broadband+5.2 points85.5% → 90.7%

Declined2

Inequality+0.0450.412 → 0.457
Price / income+0.6×3.1× → 3.7×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Roosevelt, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.9 min2015-2019	15.0 min2020-2024	−0.9 min	Within the margin of error	59%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.4%2015-2019	22.6%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Broadband subscriptions	85.5%2015-2019	90.7%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Improved	33%
Child poverty rate	15.6%2015-2019	18.8%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Effective property tax rate	0.75%2015-2019	0.63%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Little change	42%
High school diploma or higher	88.7%2015-2019	90.5%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	3.7×2020-2024	+0.6×	Declined	44%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4122015-2019	0.4572020-2024	+0.045	Declined	19%
Median household income	$63,4792015-2019	$76,4562020-2024	+20%	Improved	34%
Poverty rate	14.3%2015-2019	15.9%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Rent as share of income	24.4%2015-2019	24.2%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Rent-burdened households	43.5%2015-2019	36.0%2020-2024	−7.5 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Unemployment rate	8.7%2015-2019	6.1%2020-2024	−2.6 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	14.9%2015-2019	14.4%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	52%

“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 Roosevelt, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Roosevelt, 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, Roosevelt, 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

7,078 residents (±41)

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

2,327 households (±114)

Roosevelt, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k14%324
$25k–50k18%412
$50k–75k16%†371

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,327 households (±114)

Roosevelt, Utah
Utah share

Own67%1,559
Rent33%768

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,925 workers (±167)

Roosevelt, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone74%2,159
Carpool12%352
Public transit0.0%0

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 Duchesne County, the county holding most of Roosevelt's residents.

Duchesne County has 675 employer establishments, 330 for every 10,000 residents (1.33× the US rate of 248; 1.19× Utah's), with 6,427 paid employees at an average annual pay of $65,253. The Census Bureau also counts 1,765 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 675; 1,765 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 330; US 248 · Utah 277
Paid employees: 6,427
Average annual pay: $65,253; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	74	36.1	7.14×More than typical	592	$92,733	82
Specialty trade contractors	65	31.7	2.05×More than typical	388	$64,361	108
Ambulatory health care services	39	19	0.91×About typical	164	$52,232	34
Automotive repair and maintenance	26	12.7	2.52×More than typical	94	$39,128	21
Construction of buildings	26	12.7	1.68×More than typical	69	$45,333	40
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	25	12.2	3.87×More than typical	104	$74,212	18
Restaurants and other eating places	24	11.7	0.64×Fewer than typical	294	$18,643	8
Lessors of real estate	17	8.3	0.67×Fewer than typical	55	$33,291	215
Building equipment contractors	15	7.3	1.22×About typical	108	$68,370	19
Gasoline stations	15	7.3	2.26×More than typical	202	$22,322	—
Limited-service restaurants	15	7.3	0.91×About typical	210	$18,043	5
Other specialty trade contractors	15	7.3	2.92×More than typical	100	$58,600	52

Rank places for an industry Open Duchesne County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 20,484 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 $73.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Roosevelt, Utah: $10.41 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $73.7K; +26% vs FY2025
Per resident: $10.41; US $1,994
Sole-source: 97%; 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 Veterans Affairs$70.7K96%
Forest Service$2,0252.7%
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$9991.4%

Top recipients

CRASSOCIATES, INC.$70.7K96%
SUMMITT FORESTS, INC.$2,0252.7%
MOON LAKE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC.$9991.4%

Spending by fiscal year

89FY2017
526.1FY2018
16.6KFY2019
-317.9FY2020
1.1KFY2021
927.8FY2022
37.4KFY2023
70.1KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Outpatient care centers · 6214$70.7K96%
Support activities for forestry · 1153$2,0252.7%
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211$9991.4%

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

Roosevelt, Utah's figures are part of those of Duchesne County, UT ($3M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.4% of that total.

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

See federal money in Duchesne 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.

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

House

Mike KennedyR-UT-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.8%

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.

Duchesne County56100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Duchesne 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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