St George, UT

Utah’s statewide sales tax is 4.85%, and St. George’s combined local rate is 6.75% (Utah.gov^[1]). Washington County property tax is relatively low; one county assessor-based rollup shows a St. George median effective rate of 0.35% and a median tax amount of about $1,731 on a city rollup, while another Washington County city rollup shows Saint George near 0.36% and $1,906 (AssessorSearch^[2]). Utah’s state income tax is flat at 4.5% per a current tax guide, and the same source says there is no city or county income tax in St. George (CountryTaxCalc^[3]). I could not confirm a city-specific grocery index from an agency page in the retrieved sources, so I’m omitting that figure rather than risk using a reseller.

St. George residents have Medicare-care access through the St. George regional hospital market, but I could not verify a specific hospital-system quality page with drive times from an official source in the retrieved material, so I’m not going to overstate the local system details. The official Medicare Care Compare site confirms that hospital quality data are available there for nearby providers (Medicare.gov^[4]). For specialist or higher-acuity needs, retirees commonly end up using larger regional referral centers outside St. George; however, I do not have a retrieved official source here that cleanly confirms the nearest major tertiary-center drive time, so that figure is omitted. Medicare Advantage plan availability is also plan-year specific and would need a current Medicare plan lookup before naming options responsibly.

NOAA’s climate normals portal is the correct source for station-based 30-year temperature and precipitation normals, but the retrieved results did not expose the actual St. George station values in a quoteable way (NOAA NCEI^[5]). The nearest local weather station result retrieved was St George Regional Airport observations, which confirms the airport/station geography but not full normals (NWS^[6]). Because I cannot confirm the annual precipitation, average summer highs, winter lows, and sunny-day count from a retrievable official page in this run, I’m not inventing numbers; the reliable high-level takeaway is that St. George is a warm, arid southern Utah market with a long shoulder season for outdoor activity.

The only retrieved crime figure available here comes from a third-party site that says it is sourced from the FBI Crime Data Explorer: over 2019–2024, St. George’s violent-crime rate averaged 84.0 per 100,000, which it says is 20.9% below the national average, and property crime averaged 80.2 per 100,000, or 51.0% below the national average (Crime Explorer^[7]). I was not able to directly open the FBI Crime Data Explorer page in this run, so I cannot independently confirm the city trend line or whether a St. George agency report is complete for the last three years. Because your instructions require plainly saying when direct FBI reporting cannot be confirmed, the safest interpretation is that St. George appears lower-crime than the U.S. average, but the FBI source needs a fresh direct check before using it in final relocation math.

The St. George metro’s median list price was $623,000 in July 2026, and that figure was up 0.3% year over year (FRED/FHFA-linked market series^[8]) and corroborated in a local market report that described July as the slowest month in two years (StGeorge.us market report^[9]). Homes in St. George were taking a median 64 days on market in Realtor.com’s local market page, while a 55+ community-specific source said listings in St. George’s active-adult communities stayed on the market around 210 days, signaling a much thinner resale pool for age-restricted product (Realtor.com St. George market^[10]) (55places St. George 55+ communities^[11]). The presence of active-adult inventory is well established, including a dedicated St. George 55+ communities page and local market coverage that specifically references Sun River and other retirement-oriented neighborhoods (55places St. George 55+ communities^[11]) (Realtor.com St. George market^[10]).

The local commercial airport is St. George Regional Airport, and the National Weather Service observation page confirms the airport station identifier KSGU (NWS^[6]). I do not have a retrieved official route map or schedule page in this run that would let me safely list current nonstop destinations, so I’m not going to guess at direct flights to Midwest or East Coast hubs. For a retiree who flies often, that means St. George is convenient for regional trips, but broader hub connectivity likely depends on connecting through larger airports.

I could not retrieve a government golf database because none exists, so golf here has to be treated as indicative rather than authoritative. St. George is nonetheless widely known as a golf-heavy market, and the area’s lower-elevation desert setting makes it a strong winter-golf destination; the broader recreation draw is immediate access to hiking and canyon country around Zion, which is the main non-golf lifestyle amenity. I do not have a verified course-count source in this run, so I’m not stating a number of public courses within 30 minutes.

St. George’s population was 95,342 in the 2020 Census and 104,578 in the July 1, 2023 Census estimate (Census QuickFacts^[12]). A third-party census-based profile reports a median age of 38.3 and a 2025 population estimate of 108,713, while also showing median household income of $76,508 (City profile^[13]); that age profile suggests a city that is older than a typical growth-market suburb but still younger than many classic retiree havens. The city is the county seat of Washington County, and the same profile shows it continues to grow rapidly, which supports a market with improving amenities but also more traffic and a less sleepy feel.

FEMA’s National Risk Index is published at the county level, and the official FEMA page explains that the tool reports overall and hazard-specific risk for counties and Census tracts (FEMA^[14]). The retrieved county-rank pages show Washington County, Utah with a composite risk score around 92.8 and wildfire as the top hazard; the county is described as relatively moderate overall but with very high wildfire exposure in the summary data (DisasterRiskIndex^[15], RiskByCounty^[16]). On air quality, I could not retrieve a usable official EPA annual-good-air-days page in this run, so I’m not going to invent an AQI statistic; practically, wildfire smoke is the main seasonal air-quality concern for southern Utah.