Best PlacesWeber County, UT Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in Weber County, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages hide a wide spread here, so the area matters as much as the address. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Weber County ranks 269th of 3,144 U.S. counties on the BestNeighborhood index. Paychecks stretch further here than almost anywhere else: the median household brings in $94,593, everyday costs sit below the national average, and a strong job market ranks near the top of the country. The main drawbacks are noise, an overheated housing market, and air quality.

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The best neighborhoods in Weber County

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Weber County 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 best areas in Weber County

The parts of Weber County, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the county.

#1

Farr West & Plain City

Local pay stretches further, incomes run higher, and more residents vote.

WorseBetter
88th nationally
#2

North Ogden & Eden

It is quieter, though more homes sit empty.

WorseBetter
84th nationally
#3

South Ogden

More adults hold degrees, though fewer households have young kids.

WorseBetter
81st nationally
#4

West Haven

Crime runs lower, though biking is worse.

WorseBetter
79th nationally
#5

Pleasant View & Harrisville

Scores close to West Haven, except that homes cost less here.

WorseBetter
78th nationally
#6

Roy

WorseBetter
77th nationally
#7

Ogden

Streets are more walkable and transit reaches more jobs.

WorseBetter
58th nationally
#8

Washington Terrace & Riverdale

Prices have run up less.

WorseBetter
57th nationally

Weber County shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 4% of the country and others in the top 3%. Pick the area first, then the home.


Weber County's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Transit
Top 5%Biking
Top 5%Cell coverage

Weber County ranks where it does because the parts of life that are hardest to change mostly work here. Transit is the standout, in the top 2% of counties. Biking and cell coverage follow.

The drawbacks are real but narrow. Noise, an overheated housing market, and air quality hold the score down. The measures below break that down, and the map shows how much of it holds street by street.

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Weber County with other counties.

Where Weber County ranks high

  • TransitBetter than 98% of counties
  • BikingBetter than 96% of counties
  • Cell coverageBetter than 96% of counties
  • Health outlookBetter than 96% of counties
  • Crime safetyBetter than 93% of counties

Where Weber County ranks low

  • QuietBetter than only 10% of counties
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 10% of counties
  • Air qualityBetter than only 10% of counties
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 17% of counties
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 21% of counties

What it costs to buy a home in Weber County

A household needs to earn about $113,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Weber County home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $94,593, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$113,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,646
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $446,991 home
Median rent
$1,505
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,279
Property tax$218
Homeowners insurance$149

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 Weber County's effective rate of 0.59%, 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 Weber County

Weber County runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
35
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
13%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.9
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1826%
18 to 3425%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6417%
65 and older13%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Weber County.


Who works in Weber County, and how

Work in Weber County centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
15%
about the national average
Unemployment
3.7%
below the national average
Job growth
+3.6%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing14%
Health care & social12%
Retail trade10%
Public administration10%
Construction9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 80%
  • Work from home 15%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Weber County

Weber County has fewer places to eat and drink per resident than most counties and more late-night spots per resident than 70% of counties. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Weber County and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
845
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 32.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 17% of counties
Coffee shops
124
about 4.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 44% of counties
Parkland
1,334 acres
about 5.1 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 59% of counties
Open past 10pm
~239
food and drink venues open late, about 9.1 per 10,000 residents, more than 70% of counties
Living on campus
823
students living in college or university housing

Is Weber County growing, and who is moving in?

Weber County has grown about 15% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the Ogden, UT metro.

Population growth
+15%
over the decade, vs about 6% nationally
Population
276,118
up from 240,152
Population by year. Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program.

Where new residents come from

The rest of the Ogden, UT metro6,127 / yr
Salt Lake City, UT2,226 / yr
Provo, UT729 / yr
Box Elder County, UT669 / yr
Logan, UT367 / yr

Where people leaving Weber County go

The rest of the Ogden, UT metro5,395 / yr
Salt Lake City, UT1,587 / yr
Box Elder County, UT830 / yr
Dover, DE549 / yr
Logan, UT487 / yr

Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.


What the weather is like in Weber County, month by month

Weber County sees roughly 119 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.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January40°30°22°
April64°51°38°
July96°82°66°
October67°53°41°

Flying in and out of Weber County

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

The best schools in and around Weber County

Schools across Weber County average a C+, better than 50% of counties.

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 Weber County school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Weber County 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 Weber County against the other 3,143 counties.


Who Weber County suits

Families

Schools land around the 50th percentile and crime safety beats 93%.

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Remote workers

Cost of living against local pay beats 88% of counties, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 15% already work from home.

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Retirees

The weather beats 74% of counties.

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Common questions about living in Weber County

Is Weber County a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Weber County ranks 269th of 3,144 counties. It scores highest on transit, biking, and cell coverage, and lowest on noise 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 Weber County expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $446,991. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $94,593 median income, cost of living beats 88% of counties.

Is Weber County safe?

Yes, Weber County is safer than 93% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $289 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Weber County?

July highs average about 96 degrees, and January highs near 40 with lows near 22. That works out to about 119 pleasant days a year, more than 74% of counties.

What are the best neighborhoods in Weber County?

Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Farr West & Plain City, North Ogden & Eden, and South Ogden. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.

Is Weber County good for families?

Schools beat 50% of counties, crime safety beats 93%, and childcare runs $929 a month.

Is Weber County good for remote workers?

Cost of living against local pay beats 88% of counties, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 90% of counties. About 15% of workers already work from home.


Compare Weber County with other counties


Sources and methodology

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

Weber County detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

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