Living in Clinton, Utah: An Honest Guide from a Local Realtor

Clinton is one of those Davis County cities people drive through on their way somewhere else, and then two years later they live here. It is not showy. There is no historic Main Street, no destination restaurant row. What it has is space, a median home price that is still below Syracuse and West Point next door, and a location that puts Hill Air Force Base, Ogden and the West Davis Highway all within a short drive.

I am Julie Burningham, a Realtor with Equity Real Estate, and I have owned a home in this area since 2001. This is the honest version: what homes actually cost here, which neighborhoods are which, how long the drive really takes, and what there is to do on a Saturday. Where I quote a number, I say where it came from and when, because a price I write today is out of date by spring.

What Clinton actually is

Clinton sits in northern Davis County, west of I-15 and Hill Air Force Base, bordered by Sunset and Clearfield to the east, West Point to the west and Syracuse to the south. It covers 5.93 square miles at an elevation of about 4,334 feet, which makes it compact — you can cross the whole city in under ten minutes on a good light.

The thing most people do not know about Clinton is how new most of it is. The area was settled in the 1870s by James Hill and his family and stayed farmland for a very long time. In 1950 the population was 670 people. Then this happened:

That history explains the housing stock better than any description could. A great deal of Clinton is brick ramblers and two-stories built between the mid 1990s and the late 2000s, on generous lots, in subdivisions that went in all at once. There are older homes along the original farm roads and there is genuinely new construction on the west side, but the middle of the bell curve here is a twenty-to-thirty-year-old house with a real yard.

What homes cost in Clinton, Utah

Over the three months ending July 2026, the median sale price of a home in Clinton was $520,000, up 1.9% from the same period a year earlier, at a median of $222 per square foot. Homes took about 45 days to sell, against 43 days the year before, and 74 homes sold in July compared with 76 the previous July. Redfin rates the market "somewhat competitive."

Those numbers are less interesting on their own than they are next to the neighbors, because that comparison is the actual reason people choose Clinton:

All five figures are Redfin medians for the three months ending July 2026. Read them as a snapshot, not a law of nature.

Two things stand out. Clinton sits $45,000 to $50,000 below Syracuse and West Point, its immediate neighbors to the south and west, for housing that is often very similar in age and size. And Clinton was going up while they were flat or slightly down. If you are shopping this corner of Davis County on a budget, that gap is the whole argument for looking here first.

Sunset, just east, is dramatically cheaper at $362,000 — but that is a different housing stock, generally older and smaller, on smaller lots. It is not the same house for less money.

Cost of living beyond the mortgage

I am not going to quote you a cost-of-living index, because those numbers get repeated between websites until nobody knows where they came from. What I can tell you honestly is that in this part of Davis County, housing is the line item that actually differs between one city and the next. Groceries, fuel and insurance do not meaningfully change between Clinton and Syracuse. Your mortgage does, by roughly fifty thousand dollars of purchase price.

The second real variable is your commute, and that one is worth doing the math on before you buy rather than after. A second vehicle, or an extra forty minutes a day, will outweigh a lot of price differences over the years you own the house.

Clinton neighborhoods, by name

Clinton does not have neighborhoods in the way an older city does. It has subdivisions, most of them platted and built as single projects, and locals mostly navigate by cross streets and schools rather than by name. But the subdivision names are real, they appear on listings, and knowing them helps you understand the price spread inside a city that looks uniform from the road.

Here are Clinton subdivisions with homes on the market as I write this, with the median asking price of what is currently listed in each:

The Summerfield communities on the west side are the newer construction — Enclave and Vista are separate phases with genuinely different price points, which is why you sometimes see the same street name attached to two very different houses. Cranefield Estates is the upper end, sitting near Crane Field Golf Course on Cranefield Road, and it is platted in numbered collections that come to market at different prices; one Cranefield listing is currently asking $925,000. Maplewood Village and Clinton Towne Center are where Clinton is genuinely affordable, and they are the ones first-time buyers should have on the list.

There are older Clinton subdivisions and plats that simply have nothing listed today and so do not appear above. If you are targeting a specific pocket of the city, tell me and I will watch it for you rather than you refreshing a portal.

Schools in Clinton

Clinton is served by Davis School District, and it has three elementary schools inside the city — Clinton Elementary, West Clinton Elementary and Parkside Elementary — plus Voyage Academy, a public charter, at 1891 N 1500 W.

The part that catches people out is the older grades. There is no junior high or high school inside Clinton city limits, and the city is split three ways at both levels. Depending on your address you may feed West Point, Sunset or North Davis Junior High, and Clearfield, Syracuse or Northridge High School. Two houses a few blocks apart can send teenagers to different schools in different cities.

Because that is a genuinely complicated subject and it changes what a house is worth to a family, I wrote it up properly and separately: Best Schools in Clinton, Utah: A Parent's Guide lists every public and charter school serving Clinton with grades and addresses, explains how Davis District boundaries and open enrollment work, and tells you how to check a specific address.

The commute from Clinton

Clinton's location is the quiet reason it holds value. You are west of I-15 rather than on it, which means quieter streets, and you have three genuinely different ways south.

Hill Air Force Base

Hill AFB is immediately east of Clinton across I-15, and it is the single biggest reason people move to this city. It is a short drive rather than a commute. If you are being stationed here or taking a civilian job on base, Clinton, Sunset, Clearfield and Syracuse are the four cities you will be comparing, and Clinton is the middle option on price.

The West Davis Highway

This is the change that has not fully shown up in Clinton prices yet. The West Davis Corridor (SR-177) opened to traffic on January 6, 2024 — a 16-mile freeway running from I-15 and Legacy Parkway in Farmington northwest through Kaysville, Layton and Syracuse, ending at SR-193 in West Point. For anyone commuting south, it is an alternative to I-15 that avoids the worst of the Davis County crawl.

Be clear-eyed about one thing: there is no Clinton exit. The interchanges are at 950 North in Farmington, 200 North in Kaysville, 2700 West in Layton, and 2000 West and Antelope Drive in Syracuse. Clinton residents reach it by heading south or west first. UDOT's long-range plans extend the highway north through Weber County, with that work expected to begin in 2026 and finish around 2028 to 2029, which would put an interchange considerably closer to Clinton. I would not pay extra for that today, but it is worth knowing if you are buying to hold.

FrontRunner

Clinton does not have a station, but UTA's Clearfield FrontRunner station at 1250 S State Street in Clearfield is the closest, with a free park-and-ride lot of roughly 560 spaces. FrontRunner runs the length of the Wasatch Front, connecting Ogden through Davis County to Salt Lake City and on to Provo. For a downtown Salt Lake job, driving eight or ten minutes to Clearfield and riding in is a real option, and it is what makes a Clinton address workable for people who work in the city.

Parks, trails and getting outside

For a city under six square miles, Clinton runs a lot of parks — eleven of them. This is the part of living here that surprises people who only ever saw the city from 1800 North.

A few of these are worth singling out. Civic Center Park at 2300 N 1500 W is the city's main gathering place, next to city hall, and it is where the big community events happen. Pond Park is the one nobody expects — an actual fishing pond with waterfowl, tucked at 2850 W 2415 N. And City Gardens at 1575 W 600 N is a community garden, which for a plant person like me is a genuine selling point.

The boweries at Civic Center Park and Meadows Park can be rented from the city for $30 for a five-hour block, either 10am to 3pm or 4pm to 9pm. That is how most Clinton birthday parties and family reunions happen, and it is worth knowing before you pay for a venue.

Golf, and where to go from here

Crane Field Golf Course and its driving range sit at 3648 W Cranefield Road, inside Clinton, and the Cranefield Estates homes are built around that end of the city.

Beyond the city limits, the West Davis Corridor brought more than a highway — over ten miles of multi-use trail were built alongside it, which is a genuine addition for cyclists and runners in this part of the county. And you are twenty minutes from Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake shoreline, and about an hour from Snowbasin and the Ogden canyons. Clinton itself is flat farm-valley ground; the mountains are a drive, not a view from the porch, and I would rather tell you that than let you find out.

Heritage Days, and what community looks like here

If you want to know whether you would like living in Clinton, come in June. Clinton Heritage Days runs the better part of a week, most of it at Civic Center Park, and it is the clearest picture of the city you will get. Here is how the 2026 week ran:

An antique tractor show and a bike parade that starts at the elementary school tells you more about this city than any statistic in this article. Dates move year to year, so check Clinton City for the current schedule.

Who Clinton is right for, and who it is not

Clinton is a good fit if you want more house and yard than your money buys in Syracuse or Layton, if you or your spouse works at Hill AFB, if you want a quiet street where kids ride bikes to a park, and if you are comfortable driving a few minutes for restaurants and shopping.

It is a poor fit if you want walkability to a town center, if you want a mountain view from the back deck, or if you need to be able to walk to a train. And if a specific high school matters enormously to you, Clinton is the hardest city in the area to guess at, so read the schools guide before you fall in love with an address.

I am Julie Burningham with Equity Real Estate. I have owned a home in this area since 2001, four of my kids went through Davis School District, and I work Clinton and the cities around it every week — listing homes for sellers and representing buyers on both sides of the deal. If you are weighing Clinton against Syracuse, West Point or Sunset, or you want to know what your Clinton home would actually sell for right now, send me the address and I will tell you straight.