What are the ZIP codes in Salt Lake City?
Ten ZIP codes sit wholly or almost wholly inside Salt Lake City limits: 84101, 84102, 84103, 84104, 84105, 84108, 84111, 84112, 84113 and 84116. That list comes from an October 2026 count matching the state's Salt Lake County address data to official municipal boundaries. The one partial case is 84108, at 94.8% Salt Lake City with the rest in Emigration Canyon. Beyond those ten, the map gets less tidy. 84106, 84109 and 84115 are split between Salt Lake City and a neighboring city. 84117, 84121 and 84124 have no residential addresses in the city at all, even though their mail often reads Salt Lake City. That is why a ZIP code cannot confirm which city a home is in, and why most neighborhood names span more than one ZIP. The tables below match each neighborhood and nearby city to its ZIP codes, with home values for the ones people search most.
The USPS ZIP Locale Detail file for October 2026 also lists dozens of numbers that do not behave like neighborhoods. Several serve single institutions, such as 84132 for University Medical Center and 84190 for the Salt Lake County Complex, according to the state's PO box layer. You can skip those when you are searching for a home.
Why can a Salt Lake City address sit outside Salt Lake City?
Because a ZIP code describes a mail route, and the city on your envelope comes from the post office. USPS says plainly that "ZIP Codes do not necessarily adhere to city or municipal boundaries." The same page explains that the city in an address usually describes where the USPS delivery unit is located, which is "not necessarily the same as the ultimate point of delivery's town or city."
84117 shows how far that gap can run. The Holladay branch post office serves it, and USPS records that branch's physical city as Salt Lake City in its October 2026 file. Yet none of the ZIP's 10,880 residential address points sit inside Salt Lake City limits.
Neighborhoods add one more layer, since their boundaries do not follow ZIP lines either. Most of the areas below span two or more ZIP codes.
Which ZIP code is each Salt Lake City neighborhood in?
The table uses Salt Lake City's community council boundaries where they exist, measured by residential address in October 2026. A council area is a civic boundary and may differ from how a listing uses the same name. Federal Heights has no published street boundary, so its row rests on spot checks of individual addresses.
| Neighborhood | Main ZIP | Also reaches |
|---|---|---|
| The Avenues | 84103 (90.9%) | 84111, 84102 |
| Federal Heights | 84103 | 84102 near Federal Way |
| Capitol Hill | 84103 (89.1%) | 84116 |
| Yalecrest | 84105 (63.2%) | 84108 |
| East Bench | 84108 (82.4%) | 84109 |
| Sugar House | 84106 (49.5%) | 84105, 84108, 84109 |
| 9th & 9th | 84105 | 84102 just north of the intersection |
| Liberty Wells | 84115 (48.3%) | 84105, 84111 |
| Downtown | 84101, 84111 | None |
| Rose Park | 84116 (100%) | None |
| Glendale | 84104 (100%) | None |
Sources: Salt Lake City community council boundaries and Utah address points, retrieved October 2026.
Yalecrest shows why the street matters. The city bounds it at Sunnyside Avenue, 1300 South, 1300 East and 1900 East, and a single street can change ZIP along the way: 1500 East Yale Avenue geocodes to 84105, while 1800 East Yale Avenue is 84108.
What ZIP codes cover the cities around Salt Lake City?
The east-side cities buyers ask about most share ZIP codes with one another. The shares below show where each city's residential addresses fall.
| City or area | ZIP codes, largest share first |
|---|---|
| Holladay | 84117 (54.3%), 84124 (31.4%), 84121 (14.4%) |
| Millcreek | 84106 (27.7%), 84109 (27.2%), 84124 (19.2%), 84107 (15.4%), 84117 (8.3%), 84123 (2.1%) |
| Cottonwood Heights | 84121 (85.0%), 84093 (12.1%), 84047 (2.6%), 84092 (0.3%) |
| Olympus Cove | 84124, at every point checked |
Sources: Utah municipal boundaries and Utah address points, retrieved October 2026.
Read that table from the other direction as well. 84124 is 55.5% Millcreek and 44.5% Holladay, so the ZIP alone cannot tell you which city a home is in.
What is the difference between 84117 and 84116?
They sit in different parts of the valley and answer to different cities. 84117 is 60.5% Holladay, 18.8% Millcreek and 17.7% Murray by residential address, with about 3% outside any municipality. It includes the former Cottonwood Mall site, now Holladay Hills.
84116 is Salt Lake City's northwest side, where every residential address falls inside city limits. It covers Rose Park, Westpointe and most of Fairpark. Census figures put its median home value at $381,300, against $648,900 in 84117, from the American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 estimates.
How do home values compare by ZIP code?
Median home values run from about $360,000 to about $840,000 across the ZIP codes below. These are owner estimates pooled across 2020 to 2024 in the American Community Survey, so they lag today's prices.
| ZIP | Where its residential addresses fall | Median home value |
|---|---|---|
| 84108 | Salt Lake City 94.8%, Emigration Canyon 5.2% | $838,600 ±$43,526 |
| 84103 | Salt Lake City 100% | $779,200 ±$54,290 |
| 84124 | Millcreek 55.5%, Holladay 44.5% | $746,600 ±$32,885 |
| 84109 | Millcreek 74.4%, Salt Lake City 25.0% | $731,200 ±$22,137 |
| 84105 | Salt Lake City 100% | $686,100 ±$19,951 |
| 84121 | Cottonwood Heights 68.8%, Murray 20.1%, Holladay 10.6% | $659,900 ±$16,372 |
| 84117 | Holladay 60.5%, Millcreek 18.8%, Murray 17.7% | $648,900 ±$47,470 |
| 84106 | Salt Lake City 50.0%, Millcreek 41.4%, South Salt Lake 8.6% | $567,900 ±$20,155 |
| 84102 | Salt Lake City 100% | $548,700 ±$55,591 |
| 84116 | Salt Lake City 100% | $381,300 ±$21,010 |
| 84104 | Salt Lake City 100% | $359,600 ±$17,529 |
Sources: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, covering 2020 through 2024, and Utah address points, retrieved October 2026.
Census figures use ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which the bureau calls "generalized areal representations" of ZIP codes, so they will not match a postal route exactly. A ZIP figure also blends every city inside it, which is why 84117 reads $648,900 while the City of Holladay itself reads $763,400.
What should you check when a listing shows a ZIP code?
Check the parcel, because the ZIP only tells you how mail arrives. Planning, permits and local taxes follow the municipal boundary and the tax area, so two homes in one ZIP can sit under different rules.
Three checks settle most questions:
- Look up the parcel on the county record. It shows the tax area and the actual jurisdiction, whatever the mailing city says.
- Confirm the city. An 84106 address can be Salt Lake City, Millcreek or South Salt Lake, and each has its own planning office.
- Treat neighborhood names as descriptions. A name in a listing is the seller's wording. Compare the address with the boundary you care about.
If you are comparing areas, how to choose a Salt Lake City neighborhood is the next step, and I am happy to pull the parcel record for any address you are considering. You can reach me here or at 801-628-1281.