($1,428) Movers From Salt Lake City, UT to St. Paul, MN

What to know before moving from Salt Lake City to St. Paul

Moving from Salt Lake City to St. Paul comes with exciting new opportunities — but also higher living costs. Since St. Paul is generally more expensive than Salt Lake City, it’s important to plan ahead and budget carefully for the change.

Check out how the two cities compare so you know what to expect before you relocate:

• Rent prices in St. Paul are 10% lower than in Salt Lake City, which means you’ll have more money in your pocket each month.
• In terms of homeownership, you’ll be able to get more for your money in St. Paul.
  Home prices in St. Paul are 49.4% lower than in Salt Lake City.
• Income is the same in St. Paul and Salt Lake City. The top employers in St. Paul include Siemens, ACS Group, and 3M.
• Be sure to budget for higher bills in St. Paul, since the cost of living for a single person in St. Paul is 67.3% higher than in Salt Lake City. This includes routine expenses like utilities, groceries, clothing, and transportation.
• The cost of living for a family in St. Paul is 11.1% lower than in Salt Lake City.
• The unemployment rate in St. Paul is 63.33% higher than in Salt Lake City.
• You’ll spend more on retail and restaurants in St. Paul, since the city’s sales taxes in St. Paul are 27.48% higher than in Salt Lake City.
• State income taxes in St. Paul are 98.99% higher than in Salt Lake City.

To put this in perspective, you would need around $5,017.96 in St. Paul to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with $3,000.00 in Salt Lake City.

How life is different in Salt Lake City vs. St. Paul

• The population of St. Paul is about 51% greater than Salt Lake City, so you may find more to see and do in your new surroundings. Of course, with more people can also come increased competition for jobs and housing.
• Your access to buses, shuttles, trams, or trains in St. Paul will be about the same as it currently is in Salt Lake City. The cities share a similar public transportation score, which means their transit systems are comparable in terms of how connected they are, how often they provide service, and how close they are to jobs, housing, retail and food stores, and other important locations.
• You’ll find St. Paul to be about as walkable as Salt Lake City. The two cities have similar walkability scores of 60 and 59 respectively out of 100 in terms of how close housing is to businesses, recreational facilities, and jobs.
• You probably won’t see as many cycling lanes or off-road trails in St. Paul, which is ranked as less bike-friendly than Salt Lake City. While Salt Lake City has a bike-friendliness score of 74 out of 100, St. Paul earned a 64. Scores are based on factors like whether a city accommodates cyclists on major roadways, how often people bike to work, and how many steep hills it has.
• The crime rate in St. Paul is higher than in Salt Lake City, so you may want to exercise a little extra caution as you're acclimating to your new location. While the crime index is 50.86 in St. Paul, it is 34.64 in Salt Lake City. With this index, the lower the score, the better, since it indicates a city’s crime levels.
• You may want to exercise more caution as you’re getting used to your new surroundings in St. Paul. With a crime index of 49.14, St. Paul ranks lower in overall safety than Salt Lake City, whose index is Salt Lake City's 65.36. The safety index measures how safe people in a city feel about walking alone, both during the day and at night, as well as data on muggings, theft, vandalism, and other instances of petty crime.
• The air quality in St. Paul and Salt Lake City is generally the same (Good). Cities with good to moderate ratings have clean or acceptable air quality, with the possibility of small pollutants affecting people with certain health conditions like asthma. Anything beyond the moderate rate means increased impact on residents.