SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
Population: 190,884
Unemployment: 3.6 percent
Sales Tax: 6.85 percent
Let’s make this simple: Salt Lake City is a great place for business because it’s young, inexpensive and smart. The city’s median age is a spry 30.9, more than six years younger than the national median. Many are young entrepreneurs attracted by the energy and intellect of a city where more than a third of residents have at least a bachelor’s degree and where they can conduct business at more than 3 percent lower than the national average.