Neighborhoods

If you are considering relocating to Salt Lake City, you couldn’t have picked a better time! Here is some more information about the area that will get you excited to move here. First off, Salt Lake City has grown up. We have more diversity among religions and races. We have a broad selection of restaurants, from New American and bistros to fantastic ethnic restaurants and markets of every type, as well as a thriving and ever- growing farmers’ market. You can find a chic urban day spa in every neighborhood, along with good schools, parks, and playgrounds. Salt Lake City now hosts a major marathon. Our ski resorts are second to none when it comes to terrain, and we’re moving right up there in the amenities department. If you choose to make Salt Lake City your home, you will be welcomed by a friendly, helpful populace, many whom are also happy transplants.

Also, just to make sure that we are clear, when we speak of Salt Lake, we mean the Salt Lake Valley, which includes both Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. The neighborhoods in Salt Lake began in what is now the downtown and Capitol Hill area and spread east, south, and west as the population increased. Eastside neighborhoods were always considered more elite locations than Westside properties. To some extent, that is still the case today. As the need arose to spread outward from the city, many developments sprang up in the Wasatch foothills on the eastside and moved south at the base of the mountains as far up as it was feasible to build. These neighborhoods took their place on the roster of better locations. Today, the middle, south, and southwest areas of the Valley are well developed, and you’ll find luxury homes here on par with those on the eastside. Unfortunately, old sentiments are hard to put aside. Though living on the west side of town, that is, west of State Street, won’t brand you as coming from the wrong side of the tracks, an eastside address carries more prestige.

Local entities such as school districts, counties, towns, and special taxing districts set the rate of property tax, so where you live in the Valley will determine how little or how much property tax you will pay. City and county services vary, too.

To understand Salt Lakers you have to visit their neighborhoods, look at the homes, feel the ambience, and see the people. Each neighborhood across the Salt Lake Valley has a distinct personality, a culmination of its architectural styles, history, and residents, and you won’t find mobile homes mixed with Tudors anywhere along the Wasatch Front.