Utah Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Utah Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Utah is 82,143 square miles. There are on average 27.2 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 2,233,169 people living in the state within 701,281 households (averaging 3.13 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 2,784,572 with an estimated 24.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Utah was $18,185. By 2007 the income was $29,831. The average income in each household was $56,820 in 2008. The percentage of Utah residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.7%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $79,618 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $39,651 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 952,830 housing units within the state of Utah, a change of 184,227 from 2000 (or about 24.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 71.5%. The median value of each house was about $146,100 in the state in 2000. 9,982 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,573,372 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Utah births in the year 2006 was 53,504 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 13,764. Infant deaths that year numbered 273.

In 2007, Utah jobs totaled 1,673,907 across all industries. This was a change of 286,060 jobs from 2000. The number of Utah jobs in government in 2007 was 224,602. Workers traveled an average of 21.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 193,003 businesses in Utah in 2002. These include 25.1% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.7% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Utah devoted to farming was 11,094,700 acres in 2007.

In 2000 12.5% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the state's population who were born in a foreign country was 7.1%.

The percentage of adults in Utah over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 87.7%. About 26.1% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Utah with a disability is 298,686.

There were 1,364,494 civilians working in Utah in 2009. The number unemployed was 89,706 (or 6.6% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,984,632 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 273,723 residents less than five years old, (9.8% of residents), 868,824 less than eighteen years old (31.2% of residents), and 251,159 of the population of Utah was over the age of sixty-five (9.0% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.7%. The population classified as white was 2,580,338 (92.7%), black: 38,164 (1.4%), Asian: 57,120 (2.1%), two or more races: 48,032 (1.7%), Hispanic or Latino: 343,164 (12.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Utah was $25,104,045 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $22,905,100 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $23,675,432 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $66,372,417 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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