Sandy's median home price sits at $695,000, 65% above the $420,000 national median. On a $116,000 median household income, that puts the price-to-income ratio at 6.0x, or 6.0 years of gross pay for the purchase price alone.
Factor in $376/month for property tax in Sandy, based on the area's 0.65% effective rate applied to the median home price. That's $4,518 annually.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Utah taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $4,270/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Sandy track at 156 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Sandy's median home price runs 31% higher than nearby Salt Lake City: $530,000 there versus $695,000 here.