Salt Lake County, UT Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Salt Lake County, Utah Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Salt Lake County is 737.38 square miles. There are on average 1,219 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 898,387 people living in the county within 295,141 households (averaging 3.00 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,034,989 with an estimated 15.2% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Salt Lake County, UT was $20,190. By 2007 the income was $35,805. The average income in each household was $59,168 in 2008. The percentage of Salt Lake County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 8.8%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $35,993 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $46,077 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 358,934 housing units within the county, a change of 47,938 from 2000 (or about 15.4%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 69.0%. The median value of each house was about $157,000 in the county in 2000. 4,129 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $512,714 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Salt Lake County births in the year 2006 was 19,171 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 5,339. Infant deaths that year numbered 105.

In 2007, Salt Lake County, UT jobs totaled 762,142 across all industries. This was a change of 95,868 jobs from 2000. The number of Salt Lake County jobs in government in 2007 was 93,688. Workers traveled an average of 22.5 minutes to work each day.

There were 80,650 businesses in Salt Lake County in 2002. These include 24.2% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.5% of businesses owned by blacks, 3.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Salt Lake County devoted to farming was 107,477 acres in 2007.

In 2000 16.2% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the county's population who were born in a foreign country was 10.4%.

The percentage of adults in Salt Lake County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.8%. About 27.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Salt Lake County with a disability is 131,045.

There were 553,753 civilians working in Salt Lake County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 35,140 (or 6.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,537,310 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 95,623 residents less than five years old, (9.2% of residents), 301,147 less than eighteen years old (29.1% of residents), and 89,962 of the population of Salt Lake County was over the age of sixty-five (8.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.4%. The population classified as white was 935,079 (90.3%), black: 20,635 (2.0%), Asian: 33,376 (3.2%), two or more races: 20,096 (1.9%), Hispanic or Latino: 171,910 (16.6%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Salt Lake County, UT was $10,847,204 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $15,558,180 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $11,441,626 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $35,117,577 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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