Salt Lake City

Most affordable Salt Lake City suburbs

Ranked on what a household actually pays: the in-house cost-of-living index at 55%, the median home value against the metro at 25% (lower is better here), and the share of households already stretched by housing costs at 20%.

Updated Sep 2026·21 suburbs considered, 10 listed
1
Tooele City Hall in Tooele, Utah, United States.
Tooele$381k median · 30.8 min commute
Cost of living A−Housing DEmployment C
77
Affordability
overall 59 C
2
Stansbury Park$482k median · 30.7 min commute
Cost of living B+Housing C+Employment B+
77
Affordability
overall 61 C
3
Grantsville City Office in Grantsville, Utah, United States.
Grantsville$488k median · 32.0 min commute
Cost of living BHousing C−Employment C+
73
Affordability
overall 54 C−
4
Murray$508k median · 20.7 min commute
Cost of living A−Housing D+Employment C
71
Affordability
overall 72 B−
5
Main Street in Magna, Utah.
Magna$376k median · 23.8 min commute
Cost of living BHousing D+Employment D+
69
Affordability
overall 48 D+
6
Taylorsville$434k median · 22.2 min commute
Cost of living B+Housing DEmployment C−
69
Affordability
overall 68 B−
7
West Valley City$419k median · 22.6 min commute
Cost of living BHousing D+Employment C−
67
Affordability
overall 65 C+
8
Volunteers set up the Healing Field in front of the city hall in Sandy, Utah on Sept. 10, 2009.
Sandy$614k median · 22.7 min commute
Cost of living BHousing C+Employment B−
66
Affordability
overall 72 B−
9
The Cottonwood Paper Mill, located at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
Cottonwood Heights$694k median · 21.9 min commute
Cost of living BHousing C+Employment B−
66
Affordability
overall 73 B
10
Kearns$374k median · 25.7 min commute
Cost of living B−Housing D+Employment D
66
Affordability
overall 60 C
This list's weighting
Cost of living 55%Median home value (lower is better) 25%Cost-burdened households 20%
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Photos from Wikimedia Commons: Tooele (Ntsimp · Public domain); Grantsville (Ntsimp · Public domain); Magna (Nicolas Henderson · CC BY 2.0); Sandy (Scott Catron from Sandy, Utah, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0); Cottonwood Heights (User:JerAnderson · Public domain).