Best PlacesTooele, UT Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tooele, 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.
Tooele ranks 620th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and tree cover ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Tooele
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.
Tooele's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tooele ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of cities
- Local economyBetter than 96% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 94% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than 91% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than 90% of cities
Where Tooele ranks low
- Tree shadeBetter than only 12% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 21% of cities
- Short commute30.3 minutes each way, better than only 23% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 25% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 33% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Tooele
A household needs to earn about $110,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tooele home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $107,985; 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 Tooele's effective rate of 0.54%, 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 Tooele
Tooele 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 Tooele.
Who works in Tooele, and how
Work in Tooele centers on retail trade and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Tooele
Tooele has more parkland per resident than 84% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Tooele and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tooele, month by month
Tooele sees roughly 128 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 30° | 23° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 37° |
| July | 94° | 80° | 65° |
| October | 64° | 50° | 39° |
Flying in and out of Tooele
Salt Lake City International sits about 22 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 Tooele
Schools across Tooele average a C+, better than 35% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Stansbury Park SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Rose Springs SchoolB · 45% proficient
- Excelsior AcademyB− · 43% proficient
Top middle schools
- Clarke N. Johnsen Jr HighB · 45% proficient
- Grantsville Jr HighB− · 40% proficient
- Tooele Jr HighC · 33% proficient
Top high schools
- Stansbury HighC+ · 38% proficient
- Tooele HighC · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Tooele school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tooele 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 Tooele against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Tooele suits
Families
Schools land around the 35th percentile and crime safety beats 86%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 76% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 15% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Tooele
Is Tooele a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tooele ranks 620th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on heat safety, a strong job market, and cell coverage, and lowest on tree cover and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Tooele expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $438,138. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $107,985 median income, cost of living beats 76% of cities.
Is Tooele safe?
Yes, Tooele is safer than 86% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $244 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Tooele?
July highs average about 94 degrees, and January highs near 38 with lows near 23. That works out to about 128 pleasant days a year, more than 74% of cities.
Is Tooele good for families?
Schools beat 35% of cities, crime safety beats 86%, and childcare runs $929 a month.
Compare Tooele with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tooele. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tooele 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.
Tooele detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tooele: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tooele: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tooele: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tooele: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tooele 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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