Best PlacesSummit Park, UT Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Summit Park, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Summit Park ranks 359th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Summit Park

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Summit Park area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Summit Park's strengths and weaknesses

#359Best US town overall
Top 1%Population health
Top 1%High incomes
Top 3%What local pay buys
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Summit Park with other towns.

Where Summit Park ranks high

  • Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
  • Household income$199,927 median, better than 99% of towns
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than 97% of towns

Where Summit Park ranks low

  • Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
  • QuietBetter than only 9% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$929 a month, better than only 32% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Summit Park

A household needs to earn about $312,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Summit Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $199,927, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$312,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$7,276
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $1,275,367 home
Median rent
$2,787
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$6,503
Property tax$349
Homeowners insurance$425

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 Summit Park's effective rate of 0.33%, 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.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Summit Park

Summit Park's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
42
about the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
14%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.9
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1825%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6422%
65 and older14%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Summit Park.


Who works in Summit Park, and how

Work in Summit Park centers on professional & technical and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
24%
above the national average
Unemployment
5.7%
above the national average
Job growth
+8.4%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical15%
Retail trade14%
Health care & social12%
Education10%
Finance & insurance8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 72%
  • Work from home 24%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in Summit Park

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Summit Park.


What the weather is like in Summit Park, month by month

Summit Park sees roughly 127 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 15. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January36°24°15°
April61°44°29°
July93°71°50°
October64°44°30°

Flying in and out of Summit Park

Salt Lake City International sits about 21 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 13.4 million passengers in 2025, with 154 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SLC
Salt Lake City International, about 21 miles
Airport size
Large hub
23rd-busiest in the US, 154 nonstop destinations
Average drive
30 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Summit Park

Schools across Summit Park average a B+, better than 80% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Summit Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Summit Park 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 Summit Park against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Summit Park

Is Summit Park a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Summit Park ranks 359th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, high incomes, and what local pay buys, and lowest on air quality and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Summit Park expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $1,275,367. The overall cost of living runs about 22% above the national average. Set against a $199,927 median income, cost of living beats 99% of towns.

Is Summit Park safe?

Yes, Summit Park is safer than 94% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $183 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Summit Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Summit Park 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.

Summit Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Summit Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Summit Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Summit Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Summit Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Summit Park detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.