Utah homebuyers face a $505,000 median price, 20% above the national figure. Against the state's $79,500 median household income, that's a 6.4x price-to-income ratio.
Property taxes in Utah average 0.63% of assessed value, below the 1.1% national average. On the median home, that's $3,182 a year, or $265 added to the monthly payment.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Utah taxes wage income at 4.65% flat. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $3,094/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses statewide track at 101 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Utah's median home price runs almost identical to New Jersey, both landing close to $505,000.