City · Tooele County, Utah

Tooele, Utah

Tooele is a city in Tooele County, Utah, part of the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro area. It has 38,405 residents. Tooele, Utah has a quality-of-life score of 45 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,677 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Utah it ranks #162 of 175 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), preventable hospital stays (low) and child poverty rate (low). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), social associations (low) and drought exposure (high).

45Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,677 of 15,651 cities and towns
Utah: #162 of 175 in UT
Population: 38,405 (2020-2024)
Land area: 24 mi²
Density: 1,586.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 4976680

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety40#9,358/15,637
Economy86#2,164/15,631
Housing87#1,970/14,977
Health49#7,920/15,609
Healthcare32#10,635/15,650
Environment34#10,235/15,453
Education31#10,744/15,649
Infrastructure66#5,339/15,650
Community32#10,685/15,651
Leisure & amenities3#15,234/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.338
98/100Utah 0.427United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Preventable hospital stays · low1,453 /100k
97/100Utah 1,640 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTooele County value
Child poverty rate · low6.7%
92/100Utah 8.6%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Child care cost burden · low21.3%
91/100Utah 27.1%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTooele County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.2 µg/m³
87/100Utah 7.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTooele County value
Rent-burdened households · low42.4%
87/100Utah 47.2%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low20.8%
0/100Utah 24.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationTooele County value
Social associations · low1.8 /10k
1/100Utah 3.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTooele County value
Drought exposure · high100%
2/100Utah 98%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAATooele County value
Primary care physicians · low16 /100k
3/100Utah 56 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTooele County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.5 /10k
3/100Utah 5.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTooele County value
Grocery stores · low0.7 /10k
4/100Utah 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTooele County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
34,535 (2015-2019) → 38,405 (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
12.7 /1k (2021) → 5.1 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−60%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$63,851 (2015-2019) → $96,221 (2020-2024)
+51%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
52.1% (2015-2019) → 42.4% (2020-2024)
−9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.1× (2015-2019) → 4.0× (2020-2024)
+30%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
90.1% (2015-2019) → 94.0% (2020-2024)
+3.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Tooele, Utah improved on 4 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 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.

Improved4

Household income+51%$63,851 → $96,221
Unemployment−2.1 points6.0% → 3.8%
Uninsured−3.1 points10.6% → 7.5%
Broadband+3.9 points90.1% → 94.0%

Declined1

Price / income+0.9×3.1× → 4.0×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Tooele, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.1 min2015-2019	30.8 min2020-2024	+1.8 min	Within the margin of error	29%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.3%2015-2019	18.6%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Broadband subscriptions	90.1%2015-2019	94.0%2020-2024	+3.9 points	Improved	25%
Child poverty rate	7.7%2015-2019	6.7%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	51%
Effective property tax rate	0.63%2015-2019	0.57%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
High school diploma or higher	90.5%2015-2019	91.6%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	26%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3432015-2019	0.3382020-2024	−0.005	Within the margin of error	55%
Median household income	$63,8512015-2019	$96,2212020-2024	+51%	Improved	85%
Poverty rate	7.7%2015-2019	5.9%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Rent as share of income	30.8%2015-2019	27.9%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	74%
Rent-burdened households	52.1%2015-2019	42.4%2020-2024	−9.6 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Unemployment rate	6.0%2015-2019	3.8%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Improved	83%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.6%2015-2019	7.5%2020-2024	−3.1 points	Improved	77%

“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 Tooele, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Tooele, 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, Tooele, Utah itself moved +3.2 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

38,405 residents (±86)

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

12,354 households (±316)

Tooele, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k8.3%1,025
$25k–50k12%1,537
$50k–75k13%1,667

Homes

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

Owners and renters

12,354 households (±316)

Tooele, Utah
Utah share

Own79%9,744
Rent21%2,610

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

19,418 workers (±773)

Tooele, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone67%13,095
Carpool14%2,753
Public transit1.6%†304

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 Salt Lake City-Murray, 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 Tooele County, the county holding most of Tooele's residents.

Tooele County has 1,187 employer establishments, 144 for every 10,000 residents (0.58× the US rate of 248; 0.52× Utah's), with 14,102 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,058. The Census Bureau also counts 5,265 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,187; 5,265 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 144; US 248 · Utah 277
Paid employees: 14,102
Average annual pay: $45,058; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	135	16.4	1.06×About typical	564	$50,730	377
Ambulatory health care services	103	12.5	0.60×Fewer than typical	883	$51,267	153
Restaurants and other eating places	82	10	0.54×Fewer than typical	1,660	$18,113	20
Lessors of real estate	63	7.7	0.62×Fewer than typical	90	$34,533	444
Truck transportation	49	6	1.18×About typical	363	$94,041	143
Building equipment contractors	47	5.7	0.95×About typical	226	$54,283	73
Construction of buildings	46	5.6	0.74×Fewer than typical	195	$50,405	153
Real estate agents and brokers	44	5.3	1.10×About typical	50	$29,080	158
Limited-service restaurants	41	5	0.62×Fewer than typical	978	$17,632	11
Offices of other health practitioners	41	5	0.82×About typical	232	$39,155	107
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	36	4.4	1.39×More than typical	171	$53,345	65
Automotive repair and maintenance	35	4.3	0.84×About typical	190	$37,353	89

Rank places for an industry Open Tooele County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 82,266 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 $1.5M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Tooele, Utah: $37.79 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1.5M; −28% vs FY2025
Per resident: $37.79; US $1,994
Sole-source: 28%; US 30%
Single offer: 42%; 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 Army$747.5K52%
Federal Acquisition Service$555.3K38%
Departmental Offices$117.7K8.1%
Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation$14.2K1.0%
Bureau of Land Management$12K0.8%
Defense Logistics Agency$4,6020.3%

Top recipients

SAFEWARE INC$555.3K38%
TRITON CONTAINER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED$164.8K11%
KEKOLU-RIO VISTA JOINT VENTURE, LLC$141.7K9.8%
BRAINERD HELICOPTERS, INC$117.7K8.1%
PARC COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$87.9K6.1%

Spending by fiscal year

2.9MFY2017
3.2MFY2018
4.6MFY2019
1.4MFY2020
4.1MFY2021
6.3MFY2022
1.7MFY2023
5M

Top industries (NAICS)

Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$554.4K38%
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing · 5324$174.6K12%
Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$150.8K10%
Nonscheduled air transportation · 4812$117.7K8.1%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$89K6.1%
Wired telecommunications carriers · 5171

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

Tooele, Utah's figures are part of those of Tooele County, UT ($53.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.7% of that total.

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

See federal money in Tooele 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.

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

House

Celeste MaloyR-UT-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 96%Missed 0.9%

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.

Tooele County61100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT71

Other cities and towns in Tooele 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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