Best PlacesThe Island, Logan, UT Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around The Island, Logan, 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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The Island, Logan ranks 3,337th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and transit ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in The Island, Logan

Map of the best neighborhoods in the The Island, Logan 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.

The Island, Logan's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Heat safety
Top 5%Short commutes
Top 10%Low property taxes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare The Island, Logan with other neighborhoods.

Where The Island, Logan ranks high

  • Heat safetyBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
  • Short commute16.0 minutes each way, better than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Low property taxBetter than 91% of neighborhoods
  • Health outlookBetter than 85% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than 85% of neighborhoods

Where The Island, Logan ranks low

  • TransitBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 10% of neighborhoods
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 26% of neighborhoods
  • Household income$59,287 median, better than only 26% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in The Island, Logan

A household needs to earn about $89,000 a year to comfortably buy the median The Island, Logan home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $59,287, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$89,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,087
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $356,043 home
Median rent
$1,112
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,815
Property tax$153
Homeowners insurance$119

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 The Island, Logan's effective rate of 0.51%, 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 The Island, Logan

The Island, Logan runs younger than the country.

Median age
24
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
6%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1823%
18 to 3450%
35 to 4913%
50 to 647%
65 and older6%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for The Island, Logan.


Who works in The Island, Logan, and how

Work in The Island, Logan centers on retail trade and education. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
17%
about the national average
Unemployment
2.4%
below the national average
Job growth
−3.3%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade15%
Education13%
Hospitality & food10%
Manufacturing10%
Professional & technical10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 65%
  • Work from home 17%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 18%

Life in The Island, Logan

The Island, Logan has more restaurants and bars per resident than 70% of neighborhoods. That concentrates in some parts of The Island, Logan and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
30
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 60.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 70% of neighborhoods

What the weather is like in The Island, Logan, month by month

The Island, Logan sees roughly 112 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.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January34°24°13°
April62°47°33°
July95°75°53°
October65°47°32°

Flying in and out of The Island, 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.

Nearest airport
SLC
Salt Lake City International, about 66 miles
Airport size
Large hub
23rd-busiest in the US, 154 nonstop destinations
Average drive
94 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around The Island, Logan

Schools across The Island, Logan average a B−, better than 61% of neighborhoods.

Top elementary schools

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Top high schools

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


The Island, 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 The Island, Logan against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in The Island, Logan

Is The Island, Logan a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, The Island, Logan ranks 3,337th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on heat safety, short commutes, and low property taxes, and lowest on transit and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is The Island, Logan expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $356,043. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $59,287 median income, cost of living beats 26% of neighborhoods.

Is The Island, Logan safe?

Yes, The Island, Logan is safer than 81% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $337 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 The Island, Logan. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in The Island, 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.

The Island, Logan detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

The Island, Logan 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.