Moving here Herriman
What a construction sequence feels like from inside a driveway
Living in a city that tripled, and is not finished yet
Herriman counted 21,785 people at the 2010 census and 55,144 at the 2020 one, and the Census Bureau had it adding another 1,668 during 2024. Tripled is the round number; the exact multiple is about two and three quarter times the 2010 count. What that does to a household is physical rather than statistical: tree cover, school boundaries that move, a road arriving fifteen years after the houses it serves, and a park with a target date. The differences that matter here are read street by street.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Living in Herriman means living in a city that is mostly younger than you are. It counted 1,523 people in 2000 and 55,144 in 2020, so almost every street was built in the last two decades, and the real differences between one street and the next come down to which building phase each belongs to. The oldest bench streets, roughly 2005 to 2008, have grown in trees, finished parks and connected trails. The newest phases on the south and west edges have current floor plans and open country from the driveway, and roads, parks and school boundaries still being finished around them. The single most useful thing a buyer can do is find the edge of the construction phase and work out which side of it a house sits on. The rest is detail on how to read that edge.
The counts
Tripled is the round number. Here are the exact ones
Herriman counted 1,523 people at the 2000 census, 21,785 at the 2010 one and 55,144 at the 2020 one, and the Census Bureau had it adding a further 1,668 people during 2024, eighth in Utah by numeric growth that year. So the city is roughly two and three quarter times the size it was in 2010 and close to thirty nine times the size it was in 2000. Tripled is the handle people use; the exact figures matter more, because they explain why one street feels finished and the next one does not.
The national number that gets quoted came from a StorageCafe study reported in June 2025, which ranked Herriman fifteenth among the hundred fastest growing cities in the country on percentage change between 2014 and 2023, at 129 percent, out of a field of more than 2,500 cities of at least ten thousand residents. Bluffdale placed twenty first in the same study, with Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs, West Haven, Santaquin and Lehi also inside the hundred, which is the reason the same households tend to look at all of them.
What a household actually lives with is the physical consequence of that pace: a street built in 2006 sitting next to one built in 2022, a school boundary that moved, a road that arrives after the houses it serves, and a park with a completion target rather than a gate. The sections below take those one at a time.
The arc, in counts
21,785
the 2010 Census count
55,144
the 2020 Census count
1,668
people added during 2024 alone
2028
the target for the next major city park
The housing
A street built in 2006 and a street built in 2022 are different homes
Almost every home in this city is newer than the millennium, which means the usual buyer question about old versus new does not apply here. The real question is much narrower and almost nobody asks it: which wave of construction is this street from, and what did that wave get. Sixteen years is nothing in an established city and it is most of the history of this one.
| What you are looking at | The earlier bench streets | The newest phases |
|---|---|---|
| Trees | Fifteen to twenty years of growth, so the street has shade and the back yards have cover in August | Whips and stakes. Shade is a decision you make now and enjoy in 2040 |
| The park at the end | Built, planted, and used, because the city caught up years ago | Often a target date rather than a gate. Panorama Park in the southern hillside is aimed at the end of 2028 |
| Road connections | Settled. The through routes exist and the traffic patterns are known | Under construction. The Juniper Crest Road extension to the corridor and Real Vista Drive is targeted for late 2026 |
| The trail | Connected into the wider network, because the network grew around it | Sometimes ending at a property line, waiting for the next phase to link it |
| Construction next door | Finished, apart from renovation | A live condition, and the master development agreements for the southern hillside were only approved in November 2024 |
| What you gain instead | Everything is done, and what you see is what you get | Current building standards, current layouts, and the city's commitment to build the roads and water lines before the units |
This is a trade rather than a verdict, and which column is better depends entirely on how long a household intends to stay. A five year horizon in an unfinished phase means five years of construction and none of the shade. A fifteen year horizon means watching a neighborhood assemble itself, which a lot of people genuinely enjoy.
The single most useful thing you can do about this is also the simplest. Stand on the street and look up. Tree cover is the most honest date stamp a Utah subdivision has, because it cannot be staged, cannot be renovated in and takes exactly as long as it takes. A street with mature shade over the sidewalk in this city is at least fifteen years old, and a street with stakes and ties on every lot is not.
The second most useful thing is to find the edge of the phase. In a city building this fast, the boundary between what is finished and what is not is often a single street, and the difference between an address on the finished side and one on the other is a construction period rather than a price. Ask the city's planning department what is entitled on the ground immediately around a property rather than asking a seller what they expect.
And the third is to walk the trail from the property rather than looking at it on a map. Herriman has more than sixty miles of trail, much of it unpaved, and the network is genuinely good where it is joined up. It is also assembled in phases, which means a map line and a walkable route are not always the same thing yet. The ranked list covers what is open today.
The schools
The boundary a house sits in is a moving object here
Quality is a question for GreatSchools and Niche, whose ratings are a better guide than anyone's opinion. The structural fact worth knowing before an offer is different: in a city growing at this rate, which school an address feeds is reviewed as new buildings open, so it is not a fixed feature of the address.
Jordan School District has been building schools and redrawing boundaries for years to keep up with growth across the southwest of the valley. The most recent change for this corner came on 18 November 2025, when the board approved moving middle school students inside the Midas Creek Elementary boundary to Oquirrh Hills Middle School and high school students to Riverton High School from the 2026-27 school year. Two more elementary schools were going up in Daybreak and Herriman at the same time.
A household buying into a fast growing part of this district should expect the boundary to be reviewed again, should read the district's own boundary pages rather than a listing portal's school assignment field, and should treat that field as a snapshot of a decision that gets revisited. New schools follow rooftops rather than leading them, and the district reserves the ground in advance; the southern hillside agreements include land set aside for a future elementary school near the planned Panorama Park. Reserved land is a real commitment and it is not a school, and the gap between the two is measured in years and enrollment, not months.
For how any particular school performs, read the underlying data on GreatSchools or Niche rather than the single composite score, because a rating that fits one household's priorities does not fit another's.
Read the district's boundary pages, not the portal's school assignment. Jordan School District posts its boundary review process and its decisions, including the November 2025 changes affecting the Midas Creek boundary from the 2026-27 school year. A property portal's school assignment field is a copy of a decision at a moment in time, and in a district building new schools and redrawing lines to keep up with growth, that field goes stale quietly. In a city that has added tens of thousands of people in fifteen years, this is not an edge case.
The order things arrive
Rooftops first, and the rest catching up behind them
Infrastructure here is not neglected; it arrives in order, and the order puts housing near the front. The useful thing for a buyer is knowing where in that sequence a particular address currently sits.
The road is the biggest item and the easiest to read. Mountain View Corridor opened through Herriman in 2012 as frontage roads on either side of a reserved median, and as of 2026 the freeway lanes those roads were built around have a construction start of 2027, roughly a fifteen year gap. Until that phase is built, the city's whole eastbound movement runs through a handful of signalized cross streets onto one arterial, because a mountain range closes the western side. That is a structural condition, not a temporary one.
The civic side has moved faster than the road. The city stood up its own police department at a handover from the Unified Police Department in 2018, the first of the southwest valley cities to do it. Property taxes have gone up only twice in the city's history, the more recent tied to funding the city's own fire and police services. Those are milestones an established city passed decades ago and this one is passing now.
Health care is arriving on the same curve. As of 2026, University of Utah Health had signed a land agreement with the state and The Point toward a proposed regional campus meant to serve Herriman and the rest of the southwest valley, an early step rather than a building. Utilities are the least visible piece and the most block by block: the city runs both culinary water and a seasonal secondary irrigation system that does not reach every street, and fiber is being built out address by address. The Herriman city guide covers that setup in full.
In a city this new, the right question is not whether the infrastructure is coming. It is which year it is scheduled for.
The honest ledger
What is built, and what is currently a date
This is the part to price into an offer. Both columns are real, but only the left one is standing today. The right one is a set of commitments with target years attached, and a target year is a genuine intention, not a completion.
| Subject | Delivered and usable today | A published intention with a date on it |
|---|---|---|
| The corridor | Seven miles of SR-85 through the city as frontage roads with signalized cross streets, open since 2012 | The freeway conversion between Porter Rockwell Boulevard and Old Bingham Highway, construction expected to begin 2027, no published finish |
| Trails | More than 60 city miles, and 13 plus county miles at Butterfield Trailhead Regional Park since 31 August 2023 | Further county trail on leased mining ground, and the phased links that join city routes to it |
| The canyon road | Nothing, currently. Closed by a washout since 22 July 2026 | A repair with no reopening date as of early September 2026 |
| The southern hillside | Master development agreements approved November 2024, with roads and water lines committed ahead of units | The Juniper Crest Road extension targeted for late 2026, and Panorama Park targeted for the end of 2028 |
| Civic amenities | The plaza and park by the town hall, a splash pad each summer and an ice ribbon each winter since well before now | Nothing outstanding. This is the one column where the city is ahead rather than behind |
| Transit | A bus route, and the nearest rail platform outside the city | A reserved transit corridor through the city, with no funded service and no date |
The gap between the two columns is the whole of the risk in buying into an unfinished part of this city, and it is worth confirming for a specific address before an offer rather than after.
One item on that ledger is a disclosure rather than an amenity. The southern hillside agreements require homes in the higher noise areas to be built with added sound insulation and require buyers to be given notice of the nearby military training ground. That is a known condition written into the entitlement rather than left to a seller, and it is worth reading before you form a view about any address on that side.
The advantage of a city this new is that its unfinished pieces come with dates. The corridor phase, the boundary decisions, the trail park opening, the road closure and the hillside agreements each have a date and a responsible party attached, which means a careful household can find out exactly which stage it is buying into and price it accordingly.
The neighbors
A city that lands on a short list next to the same few names
Anyone weighing a fast growing edge city is usually weighing the others doing the same thing, so the honest next step is a side by side rather than more prose. The city comparisons below each pit Herriman against one rival on the numbers.
Start with the neighbors across a boundary or a short drive: Herriman against South Jordan, Herriman against West Jordan, Draper against Herriman and Herriman against Sandy. Those four settle most of what somebody already looking at the south of this valley is actually asking.
The second group is the growth frontier weighed against itself: Eagle Mountain against Herriman, Herriman against Saratoga Springs and Herriman against Lehi. All three landed alongside Herriman in that same fastest growing ranking, which is why the same households tend to look at all of them.
The third group is arrivals from elsewhere in the state, and it is larger than people expect: Herriman against Salt Lake City, Herriman against Provo, Herriman against Ogden, Herriman against St. George and Herriman against Logan.
What none of those tables can settle is what it feels like to live inside a construction sequence, and that comes down to a specific street in a specific year.
The last word
Who should choose an unfinished city on purpose
This address rewards a household that actually uses the western edge. Trail from the driveway, a mountain range instead of a neighbor on one side, and a sunset that arrives early because it drops behind that range are not marketing lines here, they are the physical arrangement of the place, and they are the reason to accept everything else. It also rewards a long horizon, because most of what is scheduled arrives on a timescale measured in years rather than seasons.
It frustrates anybody who assumed the road was finished, or that a trail on a map was a trail on the ground, or that a park with a 2028 target is a park. It frustrates households on a short horizon, because five years inside a construction phase is five years of construction and none of the shade at the end of it. And it will frustrate anybody who wanted the amenities without the metering, because the best things this city has, the reservoir and the ice, are both good enough that they now have rules around them.
Four checks settle it and every one of them is free. Look at the trees. Find the edge of the phase. Read the district boundary pages rather than the portal field. And walk the trail from the front door rather than tracing it on a map. Then read the corridor page, because the road is the single largest variable in what an address here will feel like for the next decade.
Scott Buehler
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A sand beach on an irrigation pond, a shut canyon road, and an ice ribbon in December.
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Blackridge Reservoir
A seven acre secondary water pond with a beach, a 15 dollar weekend and a permit street.
Read the guideThe canyon
Butterfield Canyon
A seasonal road to a 9,000 foot overlook, washed out 5.5 miles up on 22 July 2026.
Read the guideThe corridor
The Mountain View Corridor
Seven miles of half built freeway through one city, and the phase that finishes it.
Read the guideThe park
J. Lynn Crane Park
A splash pad from Memorial Day, an ice ribbon from 1 December, and two addresses.
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The reservoir, the canyon road, the corridor, the park and the growth, in one place.
Read the pageQuick answers
Moving here, answered
From 1,523 people at the 2000 census to 21,785 in 2010 and 55,144 in 2020, with the Census Bureau adding a further 1,668 during 2024, eighth in Utah by numeric growth that year. That is roughly two and three quarter times the 2010 count and close to thirty nine times the 2000 one. A StorageCafe study reported in June 2025 put Herriman fifteenth among the hundred fastest growing US cities on percentage change from 2014 to 2023, at 129 percent.
It is like living inside a construction sequence, in a good year and a bad one. Almost every home is newer than the millennium, the western edge genuinely delivers trail and open country from the driveway, and the civic amenities are better than a city this young usually manages. What comes with that is a road network still being finished around the houses, school boundaries that get reviewed, trails that sometimes end at a property line, and parks with target dates rather than gates.
Yes, and the plans are unusually specific about where. Master development agreements for the southern hillside were approved in November 2024, with the city requiring roads and water lines to be built before homes. The Juniper Crest Road extension connecting to Mountain View Corridor and Real Vista Drive is targeted for late 2026, and Panorama Park, the major public park for that area, has a completion target at the end of 2028. Those are target dates rather than completions.
Mostly maturity rather than quality, and sixteen years is the whole span. The earlier bench streets have fifteen to twenty years of tree growth, finished parks, settled road connections and a trail network that already joins up. The newest phases have current building standards and layouts, and stakes on the lots, a park with a target date, roads under construction and live building next door. Which one suits a household depends almost entirely on how long it intends to stay.
In a district building new schools to keep up with growth, boundaries are a live administrative object rather than a fixed feature of an address. Jordan School District approved changes on 18 November 2025 moving middle school students in the Midas Creek Elementary boundary to Oquirrh Hills Middle School and high school students to Riverton High School from the 2026-27 school year, with further elementary schools going up. Read the district's own boundary pages rather than a listing portal's school assignment field.
Ask the city rather than the seller. The city's planning department can tell you what is entitled on the ground immediately around a specific property, including the southern hillside agreements approved in November 2024 and the road and park targets attached to them. In a city building this fast the boundary between finished and unfinished is often a single street, and that boundary is the thing worth locating before an offer.
No, and the timeline is set. Mountain View Corridor opened through the city in 2012 as frontage roads either side of a reserved median, and as of 2026 the freeway lanes for that median, between Porter Rockwell Boulevard and Old Bingham Highway, have a construction start of 2027, with 25 new bridges of which 13 carry cross streets. Until then the city's eastbound traffic runs through signalized cross streets onto one arterial, because a mountain range closes the western side.
Almost certainly, and the comparison probably already exists as its own page. Herriman has side by side pages against the neighbors across a boundary such as South Jordan and West Jordan, against the growth frontier with Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs and Lehi, and against the cities people arrive from elsewhere in the state. This page handles what no table can, which is the feel of an unfinished street.
Four things, all free. Look at the tree cover on the street, which is the only date stamp a subdivision cannot stage. Find the edge of the construction phase and work out which side of it the property is on, using the city rather than the seller. Read Jordan School District's own boundary pages instead of a portal's school assignment. And walk the trail from the front door rather than tracing it on a map, because a map line and a connected route are not always the same thing yet.
Growth is a schedule, and you can read the schedule
Everything unfinished about this city comes with a date attached: the corridor phase, the hillside road, the park target, the boundary decisions and the closed canyon road. Which of those a specific address is exposed to is a street level question, not a city one. Tell me which streets are on your list and a Salt Lake County partner agent who works the southwest corner takes the ground work, while I stay on the homework and the financing side.
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