Home Business in Utah (2026)

Lehi requires a Home Occupation Permit before running any business from a residence. The activity must stay secondary…

Every home occupation in Sandy must be licensed by the Business License Office unless a narrow exemption applies, and…

West Valley City only lets a home run the kinds of businesses that would be allowed in its RB zone, plus Artist Studios…

Davis County Code Section 15.20.150 caps a home occupation at 20 percent of the dwelling's floor area or 400 square…

Eagle Mountain allows home-based businesses as a permitted use in residential zones under EMMC 17.65.030, but only if…

Layton requires every home-based business to hold a Layton City Business License, renewed annually, and classifies…

Orem City Code Section 22-14-15 allows limited business activity in a residential dwelling in any zone only where it is…

Provo City Code Section 14.41.040 sets the baseline conditions every home occupation must meet, including that the…

Salt Lake City allows home occupations in any dwelling citywide, but the business must stay clearly secondary to…

Unincorporated Salt Lake County permits a home business only as a secondary use of a dwelling the operator actually…

South Jordan requires a City business license for home occupations involving in-home child or adult care, preschools…

Home occupations in Spanish Fork are allowed in residential zones with a business license. Only residents of the home…

St. George allows home occupations in residential zones under two license classes, but caps business space at 400…

A home business in unincorporated Utah County needs a Zoning Administrator permit, cannot exceed 1,000 square feet or…

Washington County allows home-based businesses only in the FR, R, RA, RE, and SFR zones, run by the owner or…

Weber County allows home occupations by right in zones that permit them, but requires a land use permit with site plan…

West Jordan lets residents run a home occupation only as a secondary, subordinate use inside a dwelling, garage or one…

Lehi bans signs and product displays entirely for home occupations. Section 20.020(L) allows no exterior advertising of…

Orem City Code Section 22-14-15 prohibits any external evidence of a home occupation. There may be no exterior…

Provo City Code Section 14.41.040 prohibits any sign or advertising on the premises of a home occupation except a…

St. George prohibits any business or commercial sign or advertising on the premises of a licensed home occupation…

Salt Lake City caps home occupation signage at one small, nonilluminated nameplate mounted flat against the house: no…

Sandy limits a home occupation to one unanimated, nonilluminated flat sign per street frontage, capped at one square…

A licensed home business in Eagle Mountain may display exactly one nonilluminated wall sign, capped at four square…

A home business in unincorporated Salt Lake County gets exactly one sign: a nameplate no larger than three square feet…

South Jordan bars exterior advertising for home occupations except a single nameplate up to two square feet, and…

Home occupation signs in unincorporated Utah County follow the general accessory sign rules: on residential-zoned lots…

A detached single-family home or an approved home occupation in Washington County's residential zones may post one…

A Weber County home occupation may display only one flat sign or name plate, capped at two square feet, mounted on the…

West Jordan restricts a home occupation to one unanimated, nonilluminated wall sign under City Code § 13-11-2J. The…

West Valley City doesn't let a home business post a building or yard sign at all; the only lawful signage is mounted on…

Davis County Code Section 15.20.150 holds a home occupation's vehicle traffic to what is common for the neighborhood it…

Eagle Mountain caps when home businesses can see customers: 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. only, under EMMC 17.65.060(F). The…

Layton caps home-business client contact to 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. under LMC § 19.06.030.3(2)(b), and any customer…

Lehi ties customer visits to parking, not a flat headcount. Section 20.040(A) caps a home occupation at six parking…

Provo caps home-business retail sales at two customers per hour between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., rising to six per hour…

Salt Lake City caps home occupation client visits at two per hour, one client at a time, and only between 8 a.m. and 10…

Home businesses in unincorporated Salt Lake County can only see customers by appointment, and only between 7 a.m. and…

Sandy caps a home occupation's client traffic at two business-related visitors per hour and eight per day, plus no more…

South Jordan caps home occupation traffic at twelve one-way vehicle trips per day, covering customer and client visits…

Home occupations in Spanish Fork may have customers visit if the activity does not create significant traffic, parking…

St. George caps Class B home occupations at 10 visitors at once and business hours of 7 AM to 8 PM; Class A home…

Unincorporated Utah County limits home occupation client visits to daytime hours only: business activity involving…

Washington County limits how much foot traffic a home-based business can bring to a residential lot. A home office with…

Weber County allows only one home occupation with visiting clientele per property, and bars them entirely from…

West Jordan caps most home occupations at six customers or clients per hour under City Code § 13-11-2K, provided…

West Valley City caps home-based businesses at two customer visits per hour under Municipal Code § 7-7-115(1)(j)…

Utah runs two separate home food routes and the cottage food one is the registered route. Utah Code 4-5-501(4) requires…

Utah has two paths for selling homemade food. A Cottage Food registration (Utah Code 4-5-9.5) allows retail/wholesale…

Utah Code § 26B-7-416 lets a resident sell ready-to-eat meals cooked in a home kitchen once the local health department…

Utah requires state licensure or certification for residential child care above set thresholds, administered by the…

Lehi caps home-based child or adult daycare at 12 people at a time under Section 20.040(G) and requires a Utah…

Utah, not Davis County, licenses home child care. Caring for four or fewer unrelated children is generally exempt; five…

Eagle Mountain treats home day cares and preschools as any other home business under EMMC 17.65.090: the license…

Layton licenses in-home child care as a home occupation but exempts it from the usual floor-area cap under LMC §…

Orem allows small in-home child and adult day care under Orem City Code Section 22-6-9(F), but caps Home Adult Day Care…

Provo caps in-home Family Day Care at six children and requires a Home Occupation Permit, with the provider living on…

Salt Lake City allows home daycares as a home occupation in any dwelling except M-1 and M-2 industrial zones, capping…

A home day care in unincorporated Salt Lake County is capped at six children as a permitted use or twelve as a…

A Category I home daycare in Sandy tops out at eight children at a time and eight per day, counting the provider's own…

South Jordan treats in-home child care as a licensed home occupation, capping preschools at 12 students in two daily…

St. George zoning caps home-based child care at four children for in-home babysitting, or ten children (including the…

Washington County treats home daycare as a home occupation under Code § 10-26-3. A minor home occupation daycare…

Weber County treats a home day care as a home occupation under its Land Use Code. Operators need an annual business…

West Jordan lists in-home daycare among its permitted home occupations, capped at four children during operating hours…

West Valley City licenses home daycare as a Home Occupation: one Home Child Care license per dwelling under state…

Unincorporated Utah County treats licensed home child care as a permitted use in residential and agricultural zones…