10 Best Places to Retire in Utah

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Today, we present you with the best places to retire in Utah!

To start things off, this western state is the 13th largest with a territory covering 84,899 square miles. Despite all this extra space, less than 3 million people are living here, making it the 10th least densely populated state in the USA. Most of the citizens of Utah live somewhere close to Salt Lake City, the state’s capital.

Unlike many other American states, Utah has a pretty diverse geographical arrangement. There’s plenty of natural diversity, ranging from deserts and sand dunes to deep forests and high mountains. There are several geological regions in Utah – the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, and the Great Basin.

Best Places to Retire in Utah

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The climate in Utah can be characterized as semi-arid, although things are a bit different in the mountainous areas where precipitations are far more common. Alternatively, you can also read up on the 10 best places to retire in Tennessee.

For today’s list, we checked out all of Utah’s counties and took on those that have at least 10,000 residents. We checked out several aspects, such as the median home price, the cost of living index, crime rate, average commute time and the number of physicians for every 100,000 residents. We handed out points according to the ranking by each of these categories and rewarded those counties that have more doctors than the state’s average. Data comes from Sperling’s Best Places which centralizes data from a number of governmental sources.

For reference’s sake, Utah’s median home price is $217,200, while the cost of living index is 106, just a few points above the national average. Overall, the crime rate is calculated at 33, with 1 being the safest, while the number of physicians per 100,000 population is 209, below the 261 average across America. Without any more chit chat, here are the 10 best places to retire in Utah.

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