Housing
Provo has 29,192 occupied housing unit; 12,440 are owner occupied and 16,752 are renter-occupied units. This means that most of the population (57.4 percent) of Provo’s population rents and 42.7 percent are homeowners.
On average, 3.45 people live in each owner-occupied unit and 3.27 people live in each renter-occupied unit.
Homes are at a premium in Provo with only a 2.2 percent homeowner vacancy rate and a 2.4 percent rental vacancy rate.
Average property tax rate is 0.002787 per $100,000.
Home utilities are an average of 15 percent below the national average, according to the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association.
Fast Facts
- Provo is 40.24 degrees north of the equator.
- According to Forbes Magazine, the city was 2004’s sixth best place to live in the United States.
- The city library has 178,701 books.
- Provo is 4,549 feet above sea level.
- Brett Keisel, 2005 NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was born in Provo.
- Average summer temperature is 75°F in the summer and 30°F in the winter.
- Provo is sunny more than 60 percent of the time from mid-February to the beginning of November.
- Provo takes up 39.6 square miles.
- Average annual precipitation is 20.13 inches of rain and 60.40 inches of snow each year.