New census data illustrates Utah’s growth

In 2020, at the national level, there was a 61.1% chance that two people chosen at random were from different race and ethnicity groups. Hawaii had the highest DI at 76.0%, followed by California with 69.7%, and Nevada with 68.8%. Photo: U.S. Census Bureau

PARK CITY, Utah — The U.S. Census Bureau released the first local level results from the 2020 Census today.

Since 2010, Utah’s total population has grown 18.4 percent. 3,271,616 people now reside in the state. The Bureau said that’s an increase of more than half a million people in the last decade.

Infrastructure in Utah only lagged slightly behind, with a housing unit percentage increase of 17.5 percent since 2010.

Summit County ranks as the tenth most populous county in the state. The County’s population has increased 16.6 percent since the last census in 2010. The total population is now 42,357 — which calculates to 6,033 new residents in the last ten years.

84.8% of Summit County reported as White Alone (meaning only one race). That marks a more than 5% decrease since 2010, when that figure was 90.5%. 6.8% of respondents reported as two or more races, while 5.8% said some other race.

The increase in diversity is a trend seen in the broader Utah data and the country as a whole.

The White Alone population in Utah is now 78.7 percent of the state’s total, compared with 86.1 percent in 2010. In the U.S. as a whole, that percentage dropped more than ten points, with the U.S.’s total population now 61.6 percent White (72.4% in 2010).

You can explore the full report here.