Best PlacesRoy, UT Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Roy, 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.
Roy ranks 802nd of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. Noise pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on low property taxes.
The best neighborhoods in Roy
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.
Roy's strengths and weaknesses
Where Roy ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 89% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than 88% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than 88% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than 87% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of cities
Where Roy ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 7% of cities
- Tree shadeBetter than only 12% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 17% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 29% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 29% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Roy
A household needs to earn about $97,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Roy home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $92,517; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Roy's effective rate of 0.56%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Roy
Roy 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 Roy.
Who works in Roy, and how
Work in Roy centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 79%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Roy
Roy has more parkland per resident than 84% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Roy and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Roy, month by month
Roy sees roughly 122 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 96 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 30° | 22° |
| April | 64° | 51° | 38° |
| July | 96° | 82° | 66° |
| October | 67° | 53° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Roy
Salt Lake City International sits about 27 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 Roy
Schools across Roy average a C+, better than 38% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Kanesville SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Country View SchoolB− · 40% proficient
- Freedom SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
Top middle schools
- Rocky Mountain Jr HighC · 34% proficient
- Sand Ridge Jr HighC− · 28% proficient
- Roy Jr HighD+ · 26% proficient
Top high schools
- Weber Innovation High SchoolB+ · 57% proficient
- Roy HighD+ · 24% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Roy school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Roy 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 Roy against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Roy suits
Families
Schools land around the 38th percentile and crime safety beats 88%.
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 16% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Roy
Is Roy a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Roy ranks 802nd of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on low property taxes, low crime, and heat safety, and lowest on noise and tree cover. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Roy expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $382,781. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $92,517 median income, cost of living beats 57% of cities.
Is Roy safe?
Yes, Roy is safer than 88% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $244 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Roy?
July highs average about 96 degrees, and January highs near 40 with lows near 22. That works out to about 122 pleasant days a year, more than 70% of cities.
Is Roy good for families?
Schools beat 38% of cities, crime safety beats 88%, and childcare runs $929 a month.
Compare Roy with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Roy. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Roy 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.
Roy detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Roy: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Roy: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Roy: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Roy: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Roy 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.
- 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
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