Moving here Sunset
Relocation orientation for Sunset, at the north edge of Davis County
Moving to Sunset, and what this address actually buys in
Sunset is a small, finished city between Clearfield and Layton, near Hill Air Force Base, with I-15 running right down its spine. The mail says Clearfield, the street numbers follow Clearfield's grid, the fire engine comes from West Point or Clearfield, and the nearest commuter train is in Clearfield or Roy. Against all that, Sunset keeps its own police department and its own council. Here is where it sits, how you get around, what the services and the bills actually are, and the checks worth running before you pick a street.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Moving to Sunset means moving into a small, finished city that leans on its neighbors for a surprising number of everyday services and keeps one of its own. The mail says Clearfield, the street numbers follow Clearfield's grid, the fire engine comes from West Point or Clearfield, and the nearest commuter train is a couple of miles away in Roy or Clearfield. Yet Sunset fields its own police department and its own council. It is about a mile and a half of older, well-worn grid pressed between a railroad on the west, a county line at the top, Clearfield to the south, and a slice of Hill Air Force Base on the east. Nothing here is a dealbreaker. It is just specific, and the specifics are worth knowing before you pick a street.
Where this sits
Five services, four other cities, and the one thing Sunset insists on running itself
Almost every question you ask about a Sunset address turns into a question about which city actually answers it, and the answers do not all point the same way. The mail says Clearfield, the street numbers say Clearfield, the fire engine comes from West Point or Clearfield, the sewer goes to a district in Syracuse, and the nearest train is in Clearfield or Roy. And then, against all of that, Sunset runs its own police department.
Start with the address itself, because it explains the confusion rather than adding to it. Sunset uses Clearfield's ZIP code, 84015, and has none of its own. More unusually, it uses Clearfield's address grid too, so almost every street in town is numbered off Clearfield's origin rather than off anything in Sunset. That is why an address here reads 1300 North or 2300 North, and it is why the Clearfield companion is worth a look, since it covers the city those numbers actually count from.
Then public safety, which is where the pattern breaks. Sunset runs its own police department, with a non-emergency line of 801-825-1620 during business hours and 801-451-4150 after hours and on weekends, code enforcement in the same department, and animal control handled by Davis County. A city of about 5,400 people keeping a sworn department of its own is a real choice, and it runs the opposite way to what several similar-sized Davis County towns have done.
Fire is the other way round again. Emergency fire and medical calls are answered by the North Davis Fire District, which covers West Point and Clearfield as well as Sunset. It runs two staffed stations, one in West Point and one in Clearfield, and neither of them is inside Sunset. It is a close-by arrangement rather than a distant one, and it is simply worth knowing which agency shows up before you ever need it.
The mover's numbers
About 5,400
people, on the latest published count and estimate
Nearly all
of Sunset's streets are numbered off Clearfield's grid
94.5%
of the city's land is in residential use
1960
the median year built, from the county roll
The service list
Five services, five providers, and only one of them is the city itself
This is the part a city guide usually keeps thin, and in Sunset it is worth having in full, because more of it than usual is run by somebody else. Providers and service boundaries here are irregular, so treat this as the starting map and confirm each line by the specific address before an offer.
Most of what you would call a city service in Sunset is actually run by somebody else, which sounds worse than it is. Fire and medical calls go to the North Davis Fire District, which covers West Point and Clearfield too and keeps both of its stations in those towns rather than here. Wastewater goes to the North Davis Sewer District over in Syracuse. Power comes from Rocky Mountain Power, gas from Enbridge Gas Utah, and animal control is a Davis County service. Sunset does bill you directly for water, sewer, storm water, and trash, all on one city bill.
The exception, and the thing residents tend to mention first, is the police. A city of about 5,400 people fielding its own sworn department is a genuine choice, and it is the opposite of what several similar-sized Davis County towns have done. If you are weighing two addresses half a mile apart on either side of a city line, that is one of the real differences between them.
Two services need an address rather than a city name. Schools are Davis School District, but the city and the city guide do not agree on the elementary count or the high school, so trust the district's own boundary tool for the exact house. And the city lists no internet provider, which is a real gap rather than an oversight, so check availability with the providers directly before you assume anything.
A word on the sewer, which is older than the city that uses it
The sewer is worth a footnote, because it predates most of the houses on it. The system was first built with federal money in 1943, the same decade Hill Air Force Base arrived and turned Sunset from farmland into a suburb, and it was organized into the district that runs it today in 1954. That district now treats wastewater for around 238,000 people across roughly 80 square miles, Sunset and the base included. The city bills you, and the district does the treatment.
The bill
Sunset publishes its whole utility rate card, including a storm water charge worked out per 2,200 square feet of paving
Here is the kind of thing a relocation page usually skips and shouldn't: the actual bill. Sunset's utility rates are public, and the figures below are the ones a household actually meets. These are civic utility fees on a schedule the city reviews each year, not market or financing numbers.
Two lines are worth a second read. The storm water charge is $4.20 for one unit, and a unit is 2,200 square feet of paved or built-over surface, so a property with a big driveway or a lot of concrete is charged differently from one without. It is the sort of detail worth knowing before somebody pours a large slab.
The other is the connection fee. Water and sewer are $400 each, storm water is $250, and there is a meter package that runs to about $540 on top of the smaller service charges. A summary that calls Sunset's connection fees "a few hundred dollars" is quietly understating the two biggest ones.
Figures are effective July 2024 and change from time to time. Confirm the current card at the city office at 200 West 1300 North before you budget from any of it.
Forty-one dollars of water, twenty-nine seventy-five of sewer, four twenty of storm water on a formula that counts your paving, and twenty-three sixty-five of trash. Sunset puts the whole card online.
The ground under it
A canal company headquartered inside this city does not list this city among the places it serves
The neatest wrinkle in Sunset is a water one. The Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company, the outfit that first watered this valley, keeps its office right on the 1300 North block, a stone's throw from city hall. Its own service list names Clinton and West Point, South Layton and Kaysville, South Weber, and West Layton. Sunset is not on it, and neither is Clearfield.
Set that against the city's own story, where the area came into its own once canal water arrived in the 1880s, and you get a farming district that grew into a solid grid of houses with no farms left to irrigate. It is not a knock on anyone. It just means outdoor water here is a question to ask rather than a thing to assume, so ask the city about a specific parcel and ask the seller what the sprinklers actually run on before you count on cheap water for a lawn.
One newer water item is worth a note. The city is running a service-line materials survey, part of a nationwide federal requirement, and it asks residents to help identify what their line is made of. It is a survey in progress rather than a finished inventory, so a specific answer about a specific service line has to come from the city.
The housing stock, from the county roll
The county assessor carries about 2,420 parcels in Sunset, most of them single houses, with a scattering of small commercial and condominium parcels. The median year built is 1960. The 1950s and 1960s together account for roughly 63 percent of the houses, and about 71 percent predate 1970. Nearly all of the city's land is in residential use. These are facts about buildings, not about anyone living in them.
In practice that turns into a viewing list rather than a verdict. In a city where the middle house dates to 1960, the questions worth asking before price are the electrical panel and its capacity, the sewer lateral and whether it has ever been scoped, the roof and its documented age, the windows, the insulation, and the heating system. There is a real newer tail as well, roughly 11 percent of homes built since 2010, so two houses on one street can be half a century apart.
Getting around
One interchange, two state routes, no station, and a county line at the top of the grid
The freeway is the door. Exit 335 at 650 North is the city's own interchange, and its ramps sit right on the Sunset and Clearfield line, so from most addresses here the on-ramp is a minute or two away. Main Street is SR-126, running the full length of the city, and 1800 North is SR-37, heading west toward Clinton and West Point. The traffic counts and the route numbers in full are on the Main Street and the freeway page.
There is no commuter rail station in Sunset, and the line does not stop here even though it runs right along the western edge of town. The nearest platforms are in Roy, just north in Weber County, and Clearfield, just south. Buses run too, but route numbers change often enough that it is not worth printing one here; get the current route and stop from the transit authority for the stop you would actually use.
By the city's own reckoning, Sunset sits about 10 miles south of Ogden and about 25 miles north of Salt Lake City, with theaters and big-box shopping in Ogden, Riverdale, and Layton roughly ten minutes off, and canyon recreation about half an hour out through Ogden or Weber Canyon. Those are useful sanity checks against any drive time you are quoted.
The one commute not to size up here is the one to the base. Hill Air Force Base is the biggest employer at this end of the county, and a slice of it is actually inside Sunset's line, but which entrance a given street uses and what the noise study says about a specific address are written up once, at length, on the county's Hill page. Nothing here describes the installation, and the boundary page carries only the line on the map.
In town, or a drive away
| Destination | Miles by road | Drive time |
|---|---|---|
| I-15 exit 335, in town | In Sunset | A minute or two |
| Shopping in Layton | About 6 miles | About 10 minutes |
| Ogden | About 10 miles | About 15 minutes |
| Roy or Clearfield commuter rail | About 3 miles | Under 10 minutes |
| Salt Lake City | About 25 miles | About 35 minutes |
| Salt Lake City airport | About 30 miles | About 40 minutes |
Every figure here is an estimate; the Ogden and Salt Lake City distances are the city's own. Drive the trip you would actually make, at the hour you would make it, before you decide, because a town three quarters of a mile wide with one interchange behaves very differently at eight in the morning than at two in the afternoon.
Before you make an offer
- Confirm which city a lot is actually in at the Davis County Assessor, not from the postal address, since the ZIP and the street grid both belong to Clearfield.
- Ask the city, in writing, whether any outdoor or irrigation water reaches the specific parcel. The published rate card lists none.
- Check school assignment at the Davis School District boundary tool for the exact address. The city and the city guide disagree on the count and the high school, so trust the tool.
- With a citywide median year built of 1960, budget for an inspection that covers the panel, the sewer lateral, the roof, and the windows before you spend on the cosmetic list.
Do not assume there is secondary or irrigation water at a Sunset address. The city's rate card covers culinary water, sewer, storm water, and trash, and nothing else. The canal company headquartered a block from city hall serves five neighboring cities and does not list Sunset. A household that plants a big lawn on the assumption of cheap outdoor water can get an expensive surprise, so ask the city at 801-825-1628, and ask the seller, before an offer.
Living with it
A small city with four hard edges, and a short list of things to check before an offer
The honest summary of Sunset is that it is small, old, finished, and unusually specific about what it asks. It cannot grow, hemmed in by a railroad on the west, Clearfield on the south, the county line on the north, and a federal installation on the east, all inside about a mile and a half. On the published numbers it is not really growing either. What is here is close to what there is going to be, and most of it went up in two decades.
What it buys in is most things; what it keeps is the one people notice. Fire and medical cover comes from a district based in two other towns. Wastewater goes to Syracuse. The ZIP, the mailing city, and the street numbers all belong to Clearfield, and the nearest train is in Clearfield or Roy. Against all that, Sunset runs its own police, publishes its whole utility card, and holds council on the first and third Tuesday of the month.
The one thing this page leaves off on purpose is money. What a Sunset street lists for, what the tax bill comes to, and what it takes to buy on a given block all live on the Sunset city guide, which is built to carry figures and to be kept current. And the base on the east side, which entrance a street uses and what its noise study says, is written up once on its own county page rather than restated here.
Scott Buehler
Moving Utah About Scott
Quick answers
Moving to Sunset, answered
Yes. Sunset runs its own sworn police department, which is unusual for a city of about 5,400 people. The non-emergency line is 801-825-1620 during business hours and 801-451-4150 after hours and on weekends, and code enforcement sits in the same department. Animal control is handled by Davis County instead. It is the one core service Sunset keeps in-house while buying most of the rest from neighboring providers.
The North Davis Fire District, an independent district that also covers West Point and Clearfield. It runs two staffed stations, Station 41 at 381 North 3150 West in West Point and Station 42 at 88 East Center Street in Clearfield, so neither station sits inside Sunset itself. Both are close by. The city lists the district's number as 801-525-2850.
Because Sunset uses Clearfield's ZIP code, 84015, and has none of its own. The street numbering follows Clearfield's grid too, which is why an address here reads something like 1300 North or 2300 North rather than counting out from a Sunset center. The mailing city, the ZIP, and the house numbers all point at Clearfield, even though Sunset is a separate city with its own government.
Sunset's utility rates are public. Residential water starts at $41.40 a month for the first 10,000 gallons, then $0.14 per 100 gallons up to 30,000 and $0.16 above that. Sewer is $29.75 a month plus $0.22 per 100 gallons over 10,000. Storm water is $4.20 per unit, where a unit is 2,200 square feet of paved surface. Trash and recycling run $23.65 a month, with green waste at $7.89 from April through November. Confirm the current figures at the city office before you budget.
Water connection is $400 and sewer connection is another $400, with storm water at $250. A new connect is $30, a shut-off is $25, and the late fee is $10 after the tenth of the month. There is also a meter box and cover package that adds up to $540, and a $1,000 charge to replace a meter that is lost or damaged. It is worth pricing these in early, because the two $400 charges are larger than a quick summary suggests.
There is no clear yes to bank on. The city's rate card charges for culinary water, sewer, storm water, and trash, and lists no separate irrigation service. The canal company headquartered a block from city hall serves five nearby cities and does not name Sunset among them. Neither of those is a firm answer for one lot, so call the city at 801-825-1628 and ask what the outdoor water at that address is, and ask the seller the same question.
To the North Davis Sewer District in Syracuse, which also serves Clearfield, Clinton, Layton, Roy, Syracuse, West Point, part of Kaysville, Hill Air Force Base, and some unincorporated county ground. It treats wastewater for roughly 238,000 people across about 80 square miles. Sunset bills you for sewer on your city utility bill, and the district does the treatment.
Older, and unusually consistent. The median year built on the county roll is 1960, and about 71 percent of the city's houses went up before 1970, most of them in the 1950s and 1960s. There is a newer tail too: roughly 11 percent date from 2010 or later, so two homes on the same street can be fifty years apart. With a median that old, put the electrical panel, the sewer lateral, the roof, and the windows near the top of your inspection list.
No commuter rail station. The line runs right along Sunset's western edge but does not stop here; the nearest platforms are in Roy, just north in Weber County, and Clearfield, just south. Bus service does run, but route numbers change, so check the current route and stop with the transit authority for the exact address you are weighing.
A city that keeps one thing and buys the rest in from four different places
Sunset is a specific address, not a good or a bad one, and the specifics are the useful part. The mail says one city, the street numbers say the same city, the fire engine comes from two others, the wastewater goes to a fourth, and the police car is Sunset's own. The rate card is public, the middle house dates to 1960, and the edges are a railroad, a county line, a neighbor, and a federal installation that are not going to move. Tell me which streets you are weighing, and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who can run the parcel, provider, and school checks with you before you write an offer.
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