Payson, UT population, income and ZIP codes

Payson city is a mid-size town in Utah, with 22,205 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #42 of 334 ranked by population — larger than 87% of them. The median age here is 29.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Payson city earn a median of $84,286 a year, 7.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 8% below the $91,818 median for the 170 Utah cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 6.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Payson city is valued at $388,200, 27.9% above the national figure and 11% below the $437,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,393 a month, essentially level with the national figure, or roughly $16,716 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 29.3 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.