City · Cache County, Utah

Wellsville, Utah

Wellsville is a city in Cache County, Utah, part of the Logan, UT-ID metro area. It has 4,157 residents. Wellsville, Utah has a quality-of-life score of 93 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,159 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Utah it ranks #18 of 175 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), physical inactivity (low) and hospital quality rating (high). It ranks worst on social associations (low), restaurants and bars (low) and students per teacher (high).

93Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,159 of 15,651 cities and towns
Utah: #18 of 175 in UT
Population: 4,157 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 567.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 4982620

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.

Safety90#1,573/15,637
Economy95#820/15,631
Housing95#742/14,977
Health92#1,209/15,609
Healthcare50#7,889/15,650
Environment93#1,005/15,453
Education91#1,389/15,649
Infrastructure89#1,650/15,650
Community45#8,607/15,651
Leisure & amenities22#12,245/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Wellsville, 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

Rent as share of income · low13.5%
99/100Utah 28.9%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Physical inactivity · low13.3%
98/100Utah 19.2%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Utah 4.2United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCache County value
Child poverty rate · low1.8%
98/100Utah 8.6%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Reading scores · high3.42
96/100Utah 3.18United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCache County value
Adult smoking · low7.5%
96/100Utah 10.4%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

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
Distance to an Amtrak station · high68 mi
19/100Utah 31 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCache County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,757 (2015-2019) → 4,157 (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
56.7% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−57 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
34.5% (2015-2019) → 13.5% (2020-2024)
−21 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 4.4× (2020-2024)
+51%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
8.3% (2015-2019) → 1.8% (2020-2024)
−6.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
34.3% (2015-2019) → 40.3% (2020-2024)
+6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Wellsville, Utah improved on 2 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 4 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

Rent burden−57 points56.7% → 0.0%
Broadband+5.5 points92.1% → 97.6%

Declined2

Inequality+0.0930.335 → 0.428
Price / income+1.5×2.9× → 4.4×

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Wellsville, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.3 min2015-2019	20.9 min2020-2024	−0.5 min	Within the margin of error	53%
Bachelor's degree or higher	34.3%2015-2019	40.3%2020-2024	+6 points	Within the margin of error	74%
Broadband subscriptions	92.1%2015-2019	97.6%2020-2024	+5.5 points	Improved	35%
Effective property tax rate	0.63%2015-2019	0.46%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	52%
High school diploma or higher	94.3%2015-2019	98.6%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	4.4×2020-2024	+1.5×	Declined	9%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3352015-2019	0.4282020-2024	+0.093	Declined	5%
Median household income	$89,6432015-2019	$104,3512020-2024	+16%	Within the margin of error	26%
Rent-burdened households	56.7%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	−57 points	Improved	100%

“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 Wellsville, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wellsville, 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, Wellsville, Utah itself moved +4.2 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

4,157 residents (±19)

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

1,231 households (±113)

Wellsville, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k6.0%†74
$25k–50k17%†210
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,231 households (±113)

Wellsville, Utah
Utah share

Own91%1,119
Rent9.1%†112

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

† 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

1,958 workers (±208)

Wellsville, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone70%1,371
Carpool12%†242
Public transit0.0%0

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 Wellsville'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 $390.6K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Wellsville, Utah: $93.97 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $390.6K; −20% vs FY2025
Per resident: $93.97; US $1,994
Sole-source: 41%; US 30%
Single offer: 7.3%; 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 Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$233.5K60%
Department of the Air Force$155.3K40%
Indian Health Service$1,8270.5%

Top recipients

MOOWEEP LLC$235.3K60%
FOCUSED SUPPORT LLC$155.3K40%

Spending by fiscal year

11.8KFY2017
73.4KFY2018
204.3KFY2019
417.1KFY2020
747.7KFY2021
660.4KFY2022
906.7KFY2023
769.7KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Scientific research and development services · 5417$155.3K40%
Highway, street, and bridge construction · 2373$60.7K16%
Architectural and structural metals manufacturing · 3323$32.4K8.3%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$30.6K7.8%
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying · 2123$28.8K7.4%
Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing · 3331

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

Wellsville, Utah's figures are part of those of Cache County, UT ($187.5M 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: Wellsville 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.

Wellsville, 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
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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