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How Ogden's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
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Your $100,000 in Ogden has the same purchasing power as $96,089 in the average US city. You'd need $3,911 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Within 10 points of Ogden's cost index of 104, sorted by closest match.
Ogden has a handful of real selling points, and they're not the kind of thing you find in a brochure. Genuinely walkable, not just walkable-on-paper and bike infrastructure that actually exists are the headliners, plus 2 more things worth knowing. The rest is below.
With a Walk Score of 83/100, Ogden is in the category where car ownership becomes a real choice rather than the default. Errands work on foot, the city's built dense enough that things are actually close together, and the parking-and-gas budget can quietly disappear. Transit Score comes in at 54/100 too, so even the trips that are too far to walk are usually doable on a bus or train.
Bike Score of 66/100 in Ogden. That puts it in the small group of US cities where you can do groceries, commute, and run errands on a bike without it being a feat of urban survival.
Average AQI in Ogden comes in around 37, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Average commute time in Ogden runs around 21 minutes one-way — short enough that it doesn't restructure your day. Compared to the 45-plus-minute commutes that are normal in major metros, the difference adds up to a real lifestyle gap.
Reasons are pulled from Ogden's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Ogden gets a handful of meaningful snow days each year. Winters average about 26°F — cold enough for several inches at a time, warm enough for everything to melt between storms.
A real winter, but not a punishing one. Ogden averages roughly 26°F in winter, with the coldest mornings dipping into the single digits a few times a year and most days landing somewhere between "chilly" and "actually cold".
Reliably warm. Ogden's summer averages around 90°F, the kind of heat where you remember to leave the house before noon for outdoor things and accept that the back of your shirt will be wet by lunchtime.
Ogden falls in roughly USDA Zone 8. The zone classification is based on average annual minimum temperatures, so it's the right lookup for whether perennials and trees will overwinter here. Note that this is approximate from our winter-temperature data — check the USDA map for the exact zone before betting an expensive plant on it.
Roughly 4,318 feet (1,316 m) above sea level. At that altitude, the first few days for a coastal visitor can feel mildly off — shorter breath on stairs, faster fatigue — but it normalizes quickly.
Middle of the pack. Ogden comes in around 3,105 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Ogden's index of 104 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Ogden scores 83/100 on Walk Score, putting it in the "very walkable" tier. Transit Score is 54 out of 100. It's the kind of city where you don't think of going to the grocery store as "going" to the grocery store.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $72,849 to live in Ogden the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Ogden runs about $1,056/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.