Metro area · Utah

Ogden, UT metro area

Ogden, UT is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in Utah, home to 672,784 residents. Ogden, UT metro area has a quality-of-life score of 79 out of 100 (high), ranking #197 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Utah it ranks #5 of 10. It ranks best on adult smoking (low), poverty rate (low) and income inequality (Gini index) (low). It ranks worst on social associations (low), restaurants and bars (low) and public libraries (low).

79High
Quality-of-life score
#197 of 925 metro and micro areas
Utah
#5 of 10 in UT
Population
672,784 (2025)
Land area
1,545 mi²
Density
435.5 /mi²
CBSA code
36260

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Ogden, UT metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety87#122/924
  • Economy98#24/925
  • Housing50#464/925
  • Health83#159/925
  • Healthcare69#287/923
  • Environment23#702/917
  • Education87#118/925
  • Infrastructure98#23/925
  • Community55#419/925
  • Leisure & amenities19#750/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Ogden, UT metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Ogden, UT metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ogden, UT metro area 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.

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).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Ogden, UT

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Davis CountyCentral county84381,227
  2. Weber CountyCentral county66278,174
  3. Morgan CountyOutlying county9413,383

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. OgdenPrincipal city87,413

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Ogden87,413
  2. Layton83,286
  3. Bountiful45,023
  4. Roy38,993
  5. Syracuse35,488
  6. Clearfield33,523
  7. Kaysville33,053
  8. Farmington25,389
  9. Clinton23,612
  10. North Salt Lake23,474
  11. North Ogden21,947
  12. West Haven21,563
  13. South Ogden17,650
  14. Centerville16,679
  15. West Point11,929
  16. Woods Cross11,531
  17. Pleasant View11,217
  18. Hooper9,338
  19. Riverdale9,279
  20. Washington Terrace9,182
  21. Plain City8,396
  22. South Weber8,115
  23. Farr West7,952
  24. Harrisville6,935

Other metro and micro areas in Utah

Areas based in Utah, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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