Community
Located between Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah, along the magnificent Wasatch Front, Lehi offers the best of Western living with all of the amenities of a big city, including professional sports, recreation, theater, ballet, and other arts.
Other important amenities include clean air and water, free-flowing traffic ($2.1 billion in new road work was completed in 2002), and safe communities. The area is also affordable. The average price of a home in Salt Lake County is $223,447, and in Utah County it’s $215,163*. Home owners enjoy low energy rates, and property taxes are approximately 1 to 1.2 percent of a home’s value.
Education is highly valued. The area features one of the highest literacy rates in the nation, ranking fourth in the country in the number of high school graduates and ninth in college graduates. There are seven 4-year colleges and universities.
In the Salt Lake Valley, active congregations of over 30 different denominations meet weekly. All major world religions are represented in Utah as well as many non-denominational houses of worship.
Forbes magazine ranked Salt Lake City the “most computer savvy” and “generally educated city” in its Best Places for Smart Companies survey in 2004. The area is ranked as one of the top states for homes having access to Internet connections. More than 60 percent of Utah households have and use computers; the nationwide average is 46 percent.
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*Source: MLS Home Sale Tracking Reports, 2005
Utah Facts
- 14 Alpine ski resorts operate in Utah.
- Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal, Utah, features the largest quarry of Jurassic Period dinosaur bones ever discovered.
- Utah is the site of the nation’s first department store. Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution was established in the late 1800s. It is still in operation today as Macy’s.
- The Great Salt Lake covers 2,100 square miles, with an average depth of 13 feet. The deepest point is 34 feet.
- Lagoon amusement park has been in existence for over a hundred years.
- Utah is ranked sixth in the U.S. for the amount of boatable water per capita. Utah offers over 100 bodies of water that are considered boatable.
