SALT LAKE CITY is now under coverage.
Local dating, modeled. Every signal in Salt Lake City, converted into a tactical roadmap.
Greater Salt Lake City is open as a field office. The headline numbers, each sourced and confidence-flagged:
- $1,199 per month Zumper Rent Research, June 2026
- $45,479 per year Census ACS 5-yr, 2019–2023
- 56% Census ACS 5-yr, 2019–2023
By the numbers
11 sourced, confidence-flagged metrics for Salt Lake City — gender, money, neighborhoods, and political lean. The deep dive, with charts, is in the console below.
- Singles, 22 to 50
226,970
- Gender balance
56%
- Male skew
56%
- Median income
$45,479
- 1-bedroom rent
$1,199
- Living wage
$51,480
- Transit fare
$3
- Rent trend
$1,199
- Most female-leaning zone
49%
- Unaffiliated
31%
- Gop
40%
The shape of the market
Only the university-adjacent Foothill area approaches balance, near 49% male; Salt Lake City has no female-tilting zone.
Salt Lake City is strongly male-skewed at about 56%, among the most male markets we cover, sharpest in Sugar House and Liberty Park (60 to 61%).
How dating actually happens
Only about 14% of matches on curated apps like Hinge turn into a first date.
Roughly 1 in 10 partnered adults met their partner online, and the share climbs sharply for younger and LGB couples.
One in four matches never gets a reply.
53% of online daters say their overall experience has been positive.
Dating safety in Salt Lake City
78% of active dating-app users report burnout: 80% of women (driven by message volume) and 74% of men (driven by a lack of responses).
60% of Americans support requiring a background check before someone can create a dating profile.
An estimated 26% of men have received unsolicited explicit content, far below the rate for women.
56% of women under 50 have been sent unsolicited explicit images while dating online.
48% of online daters have faced at least one form of harassing behavior on a dating platform.
43% of women under 50 say a match kept contacting them after they said no.
52% of online daters say a scammer or bot has contacted them.
63% of men under 50 say a scammer or bot has contacted them, the highest of any group.
11% of women under 50 have been physically threatened on a dating platform.
40% of daters say platforms do a bad job removing fake and bot accounts; only 20% say they do well.
The LGBTQ+ landscape
53% of LGB adults have used a dating app, far more than straight adults.
About 24% of LGB couples met online, roughly three times the straight rate.
About 70% of LGB adults under 30 have used a dating app, the highest-adoption cohort anywhere.
7.6% of U.S. adults now identify as LGBTQ+, up from 3.5% in 2012.
22.3% of adults aged 18 to 34 identify as LGBTQ+.
Political alignment
24% of Americans say they could never date someone who disagrees with them on abortion.
Utah registers voters by party, and even Salt Lake County, the Democratic anchor of a deep-red state, is Republican-plurality at about 40%, with a large 31% unaffiliated bloc and just 23% Democratic.
47% of single daters would not seriously date a Trump voter; among Democratic women that rises to 79%.
It is the most Democratic county in Utah by a wide margin, yet registration still leans Republican with independents the pivotal middle, partly because Utah’s closed Republican primary pushes voters to register GOP.
69% of Americans would not date someone who is unemployed, rising to 81% of women.
The cost of dating
A single adult in Salt Lake County needs about $51,500 a year just to cover the basics.
Salt Lake City’s rents have flattened in the low $1,200s after years of fast growth fueled by tech in-migration along the Wasatch Front.
Americans reported $1.3 billion in romance-scam losses in a single year, a tax on every crowded market.
A UTA fare is $2.50 one way on local buses and the TRAX light rail, good for two hours.
Neighborhood intelligence
| Neighborhood | Singles | M / F | Income | 1BR rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar House | 8,658 | 61 / 39 | $54,116 | $1,682 |
| South Salt Lake | 8,513 | 55 / 45 | $40,499 | $1,328 |
| The Avenues | 7,819 | 55 / 45 | $56,509 | $1,451 |
| 9th and 9th | 6,530 | 56 / 44 | $53,515 | $1,586 |
| Liberty Park | 5,794 | 60 / 40 | $42,116 | $1,350 |
| Cottonwood Heights | 5,397 | 60 / 40 | $55,606 | $1,774 |
| Foothill | 5,001 | 49 / 51 | $45,726 | $1,583 |
| Downtown | 4,217 | 55 / 45 | $48,799 | $1,500 |
| Holladay | 4,069 | 54 / 46 | $47,483 | $1,699 |
| East Bench | 3,559 | 56 / 44 | $61,985 | $1,639 |
Local date spots
Real venues across Salt Lake City, scraped from Google Maps and filterable by neighborhood. Ratings and review counts are live Google data — never paid placement.
- Cottonwood Heights
Porcupine Pub & Grille
- Liberty Park
Brio Italian Grille
- Downtown
Caffé Molise
- Sugar House
Antica Sicilia
- South Salt Lake
Piper Down Pub
- Holladay
Sicilia Mia
- Sugar House
Lake Effect
- Holladay
Market Street Grill
- Liberty Park
Melting Pot
- 9th and 9th
Beerhive Pub
- The Avenues
White Horse Spirits & Kitchen
- Cottonwood Heights
The Hog Wallow Pub
- The Avenues
Log Haven
- Downtown
Valter's Osteria
- Cottonwood Heights
La Caille Restaurant
- The Avenues
Tuscany Restaurant
- Holladay
Café Madrid
- Sugar House
Fiddler's
- Downtown
Bambara Salt Lake City
- Liberty Park
Stoneground Italian Kitchen
- The Avenues
Osteria Amore
- Sugar House
Ivy & Varley
- Sugar House
Harbor Seafood & Steak Co.
- Cottonwood Heights
Sumac Cafe
- Downtown
Urban Hill
- Cottonwood Heights
Tiburon
- Sugar House
Blind Rabbit Kitchen
- South Salt Lake
Barbary Coast Saloon
- The Avenues
Salt & Olive
- Sugar House
Bodega and The Rest