70% of Utah’s 2025 Growth Was Along the Wasatch Front

70% of Utah’s 2025 growth was along the Wasatch Front

More than 50,000 people added Utah as their home address from 2023 to 2024, taking the state population to 3.5 million.

Over 70% of Utah’s 2025 growth was along the Wasatch Front

Residential developments in the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake City are pictured on Monday, July 22, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)Over 50,000 people added Utah as their home address from 2023 to 2024, taking the state population to 3.5 million. Over 70% of them were along the Wasatch Front, composed of Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber counties. Housing units in those counties, the most populous in the state, also grew. But,…

Wasatch Front subcounty population and housing estimates - Utah Policy

Communities in the four Wasatch Front counties – Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, and Weber – added 36,730 new residents between 2023 and 2024, accounting for 72.9% of the state’s growth, according to the latest subcounty estimates released today by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute and Utah Population Committee (UPC). The estimates detail both population and housing unit growth for the incorporated communities and census tracts in the state’s four mos…