Back to the BYU Cougars Newsfeed

Salt Lake County’s population may be twice as big, but Utah County attracted more new residents last year

Jeremy and Ember Ulrich are a young couple with a baby daughter who wanted to build a home in Sandy, where they grew up and near where their families live.

They found little vacant land was on the market and “what was available was expensive,” Ember Ulrich said.

So they looked farther south. In Bluffdale, they found that there wasn’t much in their price range with space for a good-size yard. They kept looking farther south.

The Ulriches ended up in Lehi, where they could afford to build a two-story, three-bedroom home on about a quarter acre of land.