Best PlacesLogan, UT Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Logan metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Logan ranks 17th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. It does not top any single list, but it lands above the national middle on low crime and few empty homes. The weaker spots are transit, tree cover, and an overheated housing market.
The best neighborhoods in the Logan metro
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
The best areas in Logan
The towns and districts of the Logan metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Providence
Local pay stretches further, incomes run higher, and more residents vote.
Wellsville
More households have young kids, though biking is worse.
Hyrum & Nibley
Scores close to Wellsville, except that prices have run up more here.
Richmond
It is quieter, though fewer adults hold degrees.
North Logan & Hyde Park
Commutes are shorter.
Downtown Logan
Streets are more walkable and advertised internet is faster.
Preston
More homes sit empty and health outcomes score lower.
Scores across Logan run from about the 26th to the 98th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Logan's strengths and weaknesses
Logan ranks where it does because the parts of life that are hardest to change mostly work here. Low crime is the standout, in the top 1% of metro areas. Few empty homes and population health follow.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Transit, tree cover, and an overheated housing market hold the score down. The measures below break that down, and the map shows how much of it holds street by street.
Where Logan ranks high
- Crime safetyBetter than 99% of metro areas
- Low vacancyBetter than 99% of metro areas
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of metro areas
- Local economyBetter than 98% of metro areas
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of metro areas
Where Logan ranks low
- TransitBetter than only 13% of metro areas
- Tree shadeBetter than only 16% of metro areas
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 21% of metro areas
- Air qualityBetter than only 26% of metro areas
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 27% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Logan
A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Logan home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $88,666, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Logan's effective rate of 0.45%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Logan
Logan runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Logan.
Who works in Logan, and how
Work in Logan centers on manufacturing and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Logan
Logan has fewer places to eat and drink per resident than most metro areas and less parkland per resident than most metro areas. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Logan and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Logan growing, and who is moving in?
Logan has grown about 23% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Salt Lake City, UT.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Logan go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Logan, month by month
Logan sees roughly 114 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 13. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 24° | 13° |
| April | 62° | 47° | 33° |
| July | 95° | 75° | 53° |
| October | 65° | 47° | 32° |
Flying in and out of Logan
Salt Lake City International sits about 66 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 13.4 million passengers in 2025, with 154 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Logan
Schools across Logan average a B−, better than 65% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- River Heights SchoolA · 64% proficient
- Edith Bowen Laboratory SchoolA− · 60% proficient
- Heritage SchoolA− · 59% proficient
Top middle schools
- Spring Creek Middle SchoolA− · 58% proficient
- Mount Logan MiddleC+ · 37% proficient
Top high schools
- Ridgeline High SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Mountain Crest HighB− · 41% proficient
- Sky View HighB− · 41% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Logan school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Logan measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Logan against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Logan suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 14% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 70% of metro areas and it is quieter than 90%.
Common questions about living in Logan
Is Logan a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Logan ranks 17th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on low crime, few empty homes, and population health, and lowest on transit and tree cover. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Logan expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $436,396. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $88,666 median income, cost of living beats 63% of metro areas.
Is Logan safe?
Yes, Logan is safer than 99% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $213 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Logan?
July highs average about 95 degrees, and January highs near 34 with lows near 13. That works out to about 114 pleasant days a year, more than 70% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Logan?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Providence, Wellsville, and Hyrum & Nibley. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Logan good for families?
Schools beat 65% of metro areas, crime safety beats 99%, and childcare runs $893 a month.
Is Logan good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 63% of metro areas, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 62% of metro areas. About 14% of workers already work from home.
Compare Logan with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Logan. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Logan represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Logan detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Logan: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Logan: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Logan: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Logan: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Logan detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.