According to recent research, Vineyard, Utah has the fastest growing housing market and is the fastest growing suburb in the United States with a 7,054% increase in population between 2013 and 2022.
StorageCafe, a national self-storage website, conducted this research using data from the U.S. Census. The Census revealed Vineyard to have a population of 139 people in 2010 which increased to 12,543 people ten years later in 2020.
For comparison, the second largest population increase, according to the same report, was found in Blackwells Mills, New Jersey, with an increase of 2,292% between 2013 and 2022 — less than a third of the increase found in Vineyard.
The top 10 fastest growing housing markets in the United States, with Vineyard at #1, are all smaller cities and communities with populations of less than 60,000 people, rather than urban areas. For mid-size and large cities with populations of at least 100,000 people, the largest increase in population was 90% in Enterprise, Nevada.
Maria Gatea, the author of the StorageCafe report, said this population boom resulted from Utah’s economic success as Utah has been ranked the #1 U.S. state with the best economic outlook for the past 17 years by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Gatea also noted the rising interest in suburban areas may stem from high prices in urban housing markets and the increase in remote job work.
Kamree Laursen, a new resident of Vineyard, said she moved there for the social atmosphere and proximity to her workplace.
“I had heard that it was a very social place,” Laursen said. “Since graduating and working full time, meeting people is just a little harder, so I wanted to live in a place where there were always people around and opportunities to meet more people.”
Lauren Hurst, a current resident of Vineyard, echoed the social atmosphere of Vineyard. She said many people who live there are working single adults like her. She was also attracted to Vineyard’s close proximity to BYU.
Vineyard will also soon have a 700-acre downtown mixed-use development to be named Utah City with housing, restaurants, a grocery store, entertainment and a cancer research campus. The area is currently under construction.
Herriman, Utah, a suburb within Salt Lake County, also made the list of the top twenty fastest growing housing markets between 2013 and 2022, ranked at #17.