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 it borders. 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 rows every county page on this site carries, so any two counties can be set side by side without the numbers changing between pages.
| Category | Weber County |
|---|---|
| Size and growth | |
| County seat | Ogden |
| Population | 278,174 |
| Rank among Utah counties | #4 of 29 |
| Growth since 2020 | +6.1% (15,950 people) |
| 2026 outlook | 281,364 |
| Land area | ~576 sq mi |
| People per square mile | ~483 per sq mi |
| Climate and land | |
| Elevation at the seat | ~4,300 ft, valley floor below the Wasatch |
| Climate | Four seasons, valley snow, canyon winds, winter inversions |
| Typical July high | ~92 °F |
| Typical January low | ~24 °F |
| Federal land | 18% federal |
| Private land | 61% private |
| Cost | |
| Median home value | ~$426,700 |
| Median household income | ~$90,000 |
| Property tax | ~0.6% effective on a primary home |
| Combined sales tax at the seat | ~7.25% |
| Getting around | |
| Interstates | I-15, I-84 |
| Transit | FrontRunner (Ogden, Roy stations), UTA bus |
| Nearest commercial airport | Ogden-Hinckley Airport (OGD), limited commercial service; SLC ~40 min |
| Drive to Salt Lake City airport | ~40 min from Ogden |
| Schools and services | |
| School districts | Ogden City School District, Weber School District |
| Colleges and universities | Weber State University, Ogden-Weber Technical College |
| Hospitals | McKay-Dee Hospital (Ogden), Ogden Regional Medical Center |
| Largest employers | Weber State University, Autoliv, America First Credit Union, Weber County School District, Internal Revenue Service (Ogden) |
| Outdoors | |
| National parks and monuments | None in the county; Golden Spike National Historical Park ~50 min |
| State parks | Fort Buenaventura State Park |
| Ski areas | Snowbasin, Powder Mountain, Nordic Valley |
| On MovingUtah | |
| City guides | 13 city guides |
| Ranked things-to-do lists | 13 ranked lists across 13 towns |
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 at the county seat, first quarter 2026. 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.
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 bracket, 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 ~7.25%, on the low end for 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.
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 trade 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.
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.
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 County 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 on the Ogden bench.
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
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 home in Weber County 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.
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Weber County, answered.
What cities are in Weber County?
Thirteen, largest first: Ogden, Roy, North Ogden, South Ogden, Riverdale, West Haven, Pleasant View, Washington Terrace, Hooper, Plain City, Harrisville, Farr West, 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.
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