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How St. George's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
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Your $100,000 in St. George has the same purchasing power as $102,859 in the average US city. You'd need $2,859 less here to maintain that standard of living.
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St. George has a handful of real selling points, and they're not the kind of thing you find in a brochure. The labor market runs tight and crime statistics come out reassuring are the headliners, plus 2 more things worth knowing. The rest is below.
The unemployment rate in St. George sits at roughly 3.3%, which is a tight labor market by US standards. Salaries get nudged up faster, openings are easier to find, and switching jobs is less of a leap than it is in a softer market.
The reported crime rate in St. George runs about 1,384 per 100,000 residents — meaningfully below the national norm. People who care about safety as a baseline rather than a feature tend to land in cities with numbers like these.
Average AQI in St. George comes in around 28, 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 St. George runs around 16 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 St. George'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.
Not really a snow town. With winters averaging 41°F, St. George sits in the mild-cold band where snowflakes appear occasionally and everything melts within a day. Most years see one storm worth talking about.
Cool, not cold. Winters in St. George sit around 41°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. St. George's summer averages around 102°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
St. George falls in roughly USDA Zone 9. 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.
Around 2,526 feet (770 m) above sea level. Visitors from the coast occasionally notice a slight shift in how dry the air feels; that's about the extent of it.
The headline number is reassuring. St. George's reported incident rate of about 1,384 per 100,000 is comfortably below the US norm of around 3,500 per 100k. Specific neighborhoods always vary, but the broader picture is on the safer side.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. St. George's index of 97 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
St. George scores 29 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Transit Score is 19 out of 100. Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $68,054 to live in St. George 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 St. George runs about $1,335/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.