Weber County · County profile
Weber County, Utah
Ogden is the anchor, sitting where Ogden Canyon opens onto the valley floor beneath Ben Lomond, and twelve more towns spread from the Wasatch bench to the flats beside the Great Salt Lake. Two interstates meet here, the FrontRunner rail line ends here, three ski areas sit within easy reach, and home values run under the counties to the south. I am Scott Buehler, a Utah resident of more than twenty years, licensed in real estate and lending, and this is the county read the way a local would give it: the canyons, the cost, and the outdoors.
Geographically, Weber County is two places that happen to share a name. The east side is the Wasatch bench and the valley floor beneath it, a narrow settled band where almost everyone lives, running from the mouth of Ogden Canyon south past Roy to the Davis County line. The west side is flat, open ground that steps down toward the Great Salt Lake, most of it farmed or empty. The county holds 278,174 people on ~576 sq mi, and Ogden, the seat and the largest city, sits at the hinge where the canyon country and the lake country meet.
The railroad is the reason the county is shaped this way. Ogden was the junction where the transcontinental line met the routes up to Idaho and Montana, and for decades the town lived off the trains: depots, roundhouses, and a stretch of 25th Street that ran from the station up to the bench. That working past is why Weber County feels different from the bedroom suburbs to the south, and it is why its median home value, ~$426,700, sits under the counties to the south. The boom of the last few decades built farther down the Wasatch Front, and Weber County, with its older stock and its real downtown, is the place buyers circle back to when the counties to the south price them out.
This page is the county in one place: the at-a-glance table, the cities largest first, what a budget buys here and in each town, how the county moves, the ranked things-to-do list for all thirteen towns, and the county set against its neighbors. It is written in my voice, but I am the connector here, not the local agent: I have lived in Utah for more than twenty years and I know the market, and when you are ready to tour I introduce you to a partner agent who works Weber and Morgan counties every week.
In one line
Weber in a sentence: lower cost than the counties to the south, FrontRunner at the station, and three ski areas up the canyon
At a glance
Weber County at a glance
The same thirty facts every county page on this site carries, so any two counties can be set side by side without a number changing between pages. Open any matchup in the Compare section to see them in two columns.
County offices in: Ogden · Land area: ~576 sq mi · Density: ~483 per sq mi
- Population
- 278,174
- #4 of 29 counties
- Growth since 2020
- +6.1%
- 15,950 people · 2026 outlook 281,364
- Median home value
- ~$426,700
- #10 of 20 profiled
- Household income
- ~$90,000
- #9 of 20 profiled
- Property tax
- ~0.6%
- effective, primary home
- Sales tax
- ~7.45%
- combined, where the county offices sit, from Oct. 2026
Climate and land ~4,300 ft, valley floor below the Wasatch
Four seasons, valley snow, canyon winds, winter inversions. ~230 sunny days a year at the seat.
Getting around
- Interstates
- I-15, I-84
- Transit
- FrontRunner (Ogden, Roy stations), UTA bus
- Airport
- Ogden-Hinckley Airport (OGD), limited commercial service; SLC ~40 min
- Drive to SLC
- ~40 min from Ogden
Outdoors
- Ski areas
- Snowbasin, Powder Mountain, Nordic Valley
- State parks
- Fort Buenaventura State Park
- National parks
- None in the county; Golden Spike National Historical Park ~50 min
Schools
- Districts
- Ogden City School District, Weber School District
- Colleges
- Weber State University, Ogden-Weber Technical College
Health and work
- Hospitals
- McKay-Dee Hospital (Ogden), Ogden Regional Medical Center
- Largest employers
- Weber State University, Autoliv, America First Credit Union, Weber School District, Internal Revenue Service (Ogden)
On MovingUtah
Everything this site holds for the county, one level down.
Population: Census Bureau county population estimates, Vintage 2025 (July 1, 2025). Growth measured from the April 1, 2020 estimates base in the same Census table. 2026 outlook: a straight-line outlook from the 2020 to 2025 Census trend (the Census Bureau does not project county totals). Home values and income: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, county medians. Sales tax: Utah State Tax Commission, combined rate in the town that holds the county offices, first quarter 2026. The Weber County rate shown is the one in effect from October 1, 2026, after a new 0.20 percent county transit tax. Federal and private land: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, Utah Land Ownership, July 2025. Figures checked September 2026 and rounded; the population figures are exact.
Where the people are
Thirteen towns between the bench and the lake flats
The seat and the biggest towns
Ogden is the seat and the largest city, and it sets the county's character. It sits where Ogden Canyon comes out of the mountains, with the bench rising east toward Ben Lomond and flat ground running west to the lake. Downtown is compact and genuinely old, built around the railroad depot and 25th Street, and Weber State University anchors the bench above it. The rest of Ogden runs south along the freeway as postwar neighborhoods, and the canyon road out the back of town is what makes the city feel bigger than its map.
South of Ogden, Roy is second, a flat city built along I-15 with the county's most approachable prices and a FrontRunner stop of its own. In the corridor between Ogden and Roy sit the older suburbs South Ogden, Washington Terrace, and Riverdale, mid-century towns with smaller lots and quick freeway access. On the city's north side, Harrisville and North Ogden climb the bench, and Pleasant View sits highest at the foot of Ben Lomond, where the position up the slope is exactly what the price reflects.
The west half of the county is the other Weber. West Haven, Hooper, and Plain City are the farm towns where the county's new subdivisions are going in, and Farr West and Marriott-Slaterville sit closer to Ogden on the same flat ground along the Weber River. Homes here stand on bigger lots with more distance between neighbors, and the farther west you go, the more the view is of the lake and the Promontory mountains rather than the Wasatch. These are the towns to read if the bench prices are the sticking point.
Every city guide in the county
Each of the thirteen has a full guide on this site: what it is like, what it costs, its listings, its price pages, and its communities. Largest first.
| School district | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ogden | ~89,500 | ~$355,600 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,311 ft | Ogden School District |
| Roy | ~38,800 | ~$383,000 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,531 ft | Weber School District |
| North Ogden | ~21,700 | ~$476,600 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,420 ft | Weber School District |
| South Ogden | ~17,700 | ~$407,800 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,473 ft | Weber School District |
| West Haven | ~25,600 | ~$564,300 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,260 ft | Weber School District |
| Pleasant View | ~11,400 | ~$593,400 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,457 ft | Weber School District |
| Riverdale | ~9,210 | ~$395,200 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,366 ft | Weber School District |
| Washington Terrace | ~9,080 | ~$353,900 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,712 ft | Weber School District |
| Hooper | ~9,740 | ~$628,500 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,246 ft | Weber School District |
| Plain City | ~9,260 | ~$579,600 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,240 ft | Weber School District |
| Farr West | ~8,160 | ~$563,000 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,260 ft | Weber School District |
| Harrisville | ~7,150 | ~$397,600 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,300 ft | Weber School District |
| Marriott-Slaterville | ~2,290 | ~$593,100 | ~0.6% effective | ~4,247 ft | Weber School District |
Population, value, tax, and elevation figures come from each city's own guide on this site; click a column to sort. Largest city first by default.
Before the freeway
Fort Buenaventura went up on the Weber River in 1846, built by the trader Miles Goodyear, and Mormon settlers bought his claim the following year and grew the site into Ogden. Weber County itself was organized in 1850, one of Utah's original counties, and it took its name from the Weber River, named in turn for John Henry Weber, a fur trapper working the area in the 1820s. The economy ran on the fur trade first, then on irrigated farming once Mormon families moved in. The turning point was the railroad: after the transcontinental line reached northern Utah in 1869, Ogden became the rail hub of the intermountain West, long known as Junction City, and that rail geography still shapes where the county's older neighborhoods and depot district sit today.
How the county grows now
- On the flat. West Haven, Hooper, and Plain City are where the county's new subdivisions are going in, out on the open ground west of I-15 where land is still cheap enough to develop.
- Up the bench. North Ogden and Pleasant View add houses a step up the slope, where a new build trades mostly on the view down the valley.
- In the old city. Ogden is growing by turning over its own ground, with townhomes and apartments filling blocks that once held postwar houses and commercial lots.
- The number. A straight line through the 2020 count and the 2025 estimate puts the county near 281,364 in 2026, a steady pace that is slower than the growth machine in Utah County and a step ahead of the counties immediately south.
New homes, where they still exist
What a budget buys
More house for the money than the counties to the south
Home values
The county median is ~$426,700, and that figure is the honest core of Weber's cost story: it sits below the medians of Davis and Salt Lake counties to the south, which is the comparison that matters to most buyers. The split inside the county runs by age and location. The older stock in Ogden, Roy, South Ogden, and Washington Terrace carries the prices under the county line, while the bench towns north of Ogden and the newest subdivisions out west run above it. Money moves up the bench and out to the flat, and where you land on that map decides what the county median means for you.
The price pages show the split street by street. Under $500,000 is the county's working price range, and it is a real search in most of the county: Ogden under $500K, Roy under $500K, South Ogden under $500K, and North Ogden under $500K. The bench and the newer west-side towns run a step higher: West Haven under $700K, Plain City under $750K, Farr West under $800K, and Pleasant View under $1M up where the bench starts to look like a mountain.
What you actually buy at those prices is usually an older house. The county's stock runs from Ogden's early brick and the postwar houses of Roy, Washington Terrace, and South Ogden to the split-levels and ramblers of the 1960s and 1970s and the newer two-stories on the bench and out west. Buyers coming from newer markets should read the county's basement-home and single-story pages, because the basement rambler is a common Weber house and it changes how square footage reads on a listing. The honest trade is that you get more house for the money than you would south of the county line, and you often pay for it in updates or in a lot that is smaller than what the newer subdivisions out west offer.
Taxes in this county
Utah taxes an owner-occupied home on 55 percent of its market value, the state's primary-residence rule, and that is why property tax on a Weber County home lands at ~0.6% effective on a primary home. The number moves a little with the city and the local districts, so check the exact rate for an address on the county assessor's site before you write an offer, but the spread across the county's cities is narrow. At the register, the combined sales tax in Ogden is ~7.45%, in line with most of the Wasatch Front's big cities and a real difference from the rate in Salt Lake City.
For the full picture of what this county costs to live in beyond the house, the cost-of-living guide lays the state out by region, and the affordability calculator turns any of these medians into a payment you can plan around. Weber's honest advantage is a lower entry number than the counties to the south, and its honest catch is that a good share of the inventory is older and will ask something of you in updates, in layout, or in both.
Browse the county by budget
Pick the price range, then the town. Every link is a live price page on this site, and each town's link stays inside the budget you chose.
Getting around
Two interstates, one train line, and the canyons at the edge of town
Interstates and transit
I-15 is the county's spine, running north and south the length of the valley and carrying the commute toward Davis County and Salt Lake City. I-84 is the county's road to the mountains and the east, climbing out of the Ogden area up Weber Canyon toward Morgan County, and it is the freeway that puts Snowbasin within a short drive. The network is simple, and so is the daily rhythm: the crowd moves south toward the big job centers in the morning and north again at night, which makes the commute into Ogden the easy direction.
Transit is where Weber County punches above its size. FrontRunner, the commuter rail that runs the whole length of the Wasatch Front, ends in Ogden, with a second station in Roy, and UTA buses fill in the rest of the county. The Ogden station sits at the west edge of downtown, and a FrontRunner seat gets a rider to a downtown Salt Lake City office in about an hour without touching I-15. For anyone whose work is south of the county line, that train is a genuine alternative to the drive, and it is a quiet reason the county holds its value.
The airport and the drive
Flying out of Weber County usually means Ogden-Hinckley, the small airport on the west side of town with a thin schedule of commercial flights, and for most trips the airport that matters is Salt Lake City International, ~40 min from Ogden. That is close enough that a flight home is not an all-day project, and far enough that the hub's traffic stays in someone else's county. The two interstates, the rail line, and that airport drive are the whole transportation story, and it is a strong one for a county this size.
Drive times, off-peak
- Ogden to downtown Salt Lake City
- About forty minutes on I-15 in normal traffic; FrontRunner takes about an hour.
- Ogden to Roy
- About ten minutes down I-15.
- Ogden to Snowbasin
- About thirty minutes, east on I-84 and up the canyon road to the resort.
- Ogden to Powder Mountain
- About forty-five minutes through Ogden Canyon, past Pineview, to the ridge road above Eden.
- Ogden to Golden Spike National Historical Park
- About fifty minutes northwest on I-15 and county roads.
Things to do
Thirteen towns, thirteen ranked lists
Every town in Weber County has its own ranked things-to-do list on The Local, researched and written for that town, and thirteen lists is the honest count because thirteen towns is what this county has. Ogden's runs eleven deep and Roy's eight, and the rest are the length of what each place actually holds. What belongs to no single town, the canyons, the reservoirs, the bench trails, and the river parkways, gets its own county-level reads in the card beside the list.
Region reads
The county-wide pages that no single town owns.
- Snowbasin and Powder Mountain, decided honestly
- Ogden Canyon, mouth to dam
- Historic 25th Street, from the depot up
- Ben Lomond and the Ogden bench, trail by trail
- Pineview and Causey, the Ogden River's two reservoirs
- The Ogden and Weber river parkways, reach by reach
The honest read
The honest read is that Weber's weekends split between two deep pools. Up the canyons sits the ski and reservoir country, Snowbasin on the I-84 side and Powder Mountain and Nordic Valley beyond Pineview, and in the valley itself the bench trails under Ben Lomond and the river parkways keep the outdoors close in every month except the deep-inversion weeks of winter. The catch is the weather: the valley floor catches the winter haze while the canyon air stays clear, so the best winter days are the ones that send you uphill, and the flip side is that everyone in the county has that same idea on a bluebird Saturday, which Pineview's summer parking lot demonstrates. Pick your season and Weber County delivers; try to do it all in one weekend and you will spend it in the car.
The county's year
The events that anchor the calendar here, month by month.
July
Ogden Pioneer DaysOne of Utah's largest Pioneer Day celebrations, with a rodeo and a parade around the July 24 holiday.
June through October
The Twilight Concert Series at the Ogden AmphitheaterOutdoor concerts downtown through the warm months.
Summer
The Ogden Farmers Market on Historic 25th StreetSaturday market by the depot.
November and December
Christmas Village at the Ogden Municipal GardensA lighted holiday village downtown.
Schools and services
Two districts, a university above town, and the county's two hospitals
School districts
Two districts divide the county: Ogden City School District, Weber School District. Ogden City School District serves the city proper, and Weber School District covers Roy, South Ogden, North Ogden, and everything else, including the unincorporated ground between the towns. The city guide for any town names its district. I do not rate schools, here or anywhere on this site: I state the district, link the facts, and leave the judgment to you and the district's own published data.
| District | Where it runs | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Ogden City School District | Ogden proper | ~10,400 students |
| Weber School District | The county outside Ogden city: Roy, North Ogden, South Ogden, Riverdale, Pleasant View, and the smaller towns | ~32,400 students |
Enrollment: Utah State Board of Education, latest published fall count, rounded. Facts and official links only; I do not rate schools.
Colleges and hospitals
Weber State University, Ogden-Weber Technical College. Weber State University sits on the bench above downtown Ogden and gives the county its main campus, its events calendar, and a steady employer base; Ogden-Weber Technical College runs the trade training on the valley floor. For everyday medical care the county is well covered: McKay-Dee Hospital (Ogden), Ogden Regional Medical Center. Both hospitals sit in Ogden, so the farther a home is out toward the lake or up the bench, the longer the run for care, and for the most specialized medicine people still head south to Salt Lake City, about forty minutes away.
The county runs the library system, the health department, and the regional parks, and the two river parkways that thread through the valley are the county's best free asset. Largest employers, by the state's list: Weber State University, Autoliv, America First Credit Union, Weber School District, Internal Revenue Service (Ogden). The university, the school districts, and the IRS operation in Ogden are the anchors that do not move with the business cycle, Autoliv is the large manufacturer on the west side, and America First Credit Union keeps its headquarters in Riverdale.
Guides for this move
- Relocating to Utah, an orientation
- First-time buyers in Utah
- Buying new constructionThe west-side and bench towns are where the county's building is happening.
- Moving up to your next homeFrom a Roy rambler or a west-side new build to the bench, the classic Weber move.
- Retiring to the Wasatch Front
Moving here: the county offices
The offices and providers a new Weber County homeowner actually contacts, each linked at its official site.
- County government
- Weber CountyDepartments and county services.
- Assessor
- Weber County AssessorValues, the primary residence exemption, and parcel lookup.
- Recorder
- Weber County RecorderDeeds and ownership records.
- Treasurer
- Weber County TreasurerProperty tax billing and payment.
- Driver license and DMV
- Utah DMV office locationsNew residents register vehicles here; the Ogden office is on Lincoln Avenue.
- Voter registration
- Weber County Clerk/AuditorElections and voter registration.
- Power
- Rocky Mountain PowerElectric utility for the county.
- Natural gas
- Enbridge Gas UtahThe former Dominion Energy Utah.
- Water
- City and district systemsMost cities run their own culinary water; Bona Vista Water and Weber Basin Water serve much of the north county.
Compare it
Weber County against its neighbors
The full side-by-side pages built so far for this county. The matchup tool on the county hub builds any other pair, and routes you here if the pair is not built yet.
Any two counties
The county matchup tool
Set Weber County beside Davis, Cache, or any of the other counties on the hub, and read the same rows side by side.
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Compare the county's cities
Ogden vs Roy, the bench vs the flat: pair the county's towns, or match Ogden against any city in the state.
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What a Weber County home is worth
A value built by hand from real county sales, not an algorithm, and a path to get featured where Weber County buyers are already looking.
Start the valuationCommon questions
Weber County, answered
What cities are in Weber County?
Thirteen, largest first: Ogden, Roy, North Ogden, South Ogden, West Haven, Pleasant View, Riverdale, Washington Terrace, Hooper, Plain City, Farr West, Harrisville, and Marriott-Slaterville. Ogden is the seat and the largest, sitting where Ogden Canyon opens onto the valley floor, and Roy is second. The rest ring Ogden on the bench below Ben Lomond, along the I-15 corridor, and out on the flat ground that steps down to the Great Salt Lake. Each has a full guide on this site and a ranked things-to-do list on The Local.
Where are the least expensive homes in Weber County?
The older stock in Ogden, Roy, South Ogden, and Washington Terrace carries the county's lowest prices, and the trade is age and updates more than location. The bench towns north of Ogden and the newest subdivisions out west run above the county median of ~$426,700. Each city's price pages show what is actually listed in its range today.
How far is Weber County from Salt Lake City?
About forty minutes by car from Ogden to downtown Salt Lake City on I-15 in normal traffic, and about the same to the airport. FrontRunner runs from the Ogden and Roy stations down the Wasatch Front to Salt Lake City in about an hour. For daily commuting the busiest direction is south toward Davis and Salt Lake County jobs; the reverse commute into Ogden is the easy direction.
What is there to do in Weber County on a weekend?
Three things at once. Up the canyons are the reservoirs and the ski areas: Powder Mountain and Nordic Valley beyond Pineview in Ogden Canyon, and Snowbasin off I-84. In town, historic 25th Street, the bench trails below Ben Lomond, and the river parkways cover the months without snow. Every town in the county has its own ranked things-to-do list on The Local, from Ogden's eleven down to the honest five in the smallest places.
Is Weber County still growing?
Moderately, for the Wasatch Front. The Census Bureau put the county at 278,174 in July 2025, up +6.1% from the 2020 count of 262,224, an added 15,950 people. The new construction concentrates out west in West Haven, Hooper, and Plain City and on the bench in North Ogden and Pleasant View, while Ogden itself grows by filling in. That keeps the market steady rather than frantic and holds the county's home values under the medians of the counties to the south.
Next step
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