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Utah’s population has officially surpassed 3.5 million, but growth in the state has slowed overall.
A new report released Wednesday from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah estimated that the state added more than 50,000 new residents from July 2023 through July 2024. And while population growth continued, it was down to .1% from 2023, from 1.6% two years ago to 1.5% last year.
Migration to the state and natural increase — the number of annual births minus annual deaths — contributed almost equally to population growth in Utah, with net migration accounting for 52% of new residents and natural increase accounting for 48%, according to the report. Utah’s net migration — which subtracts the number of people moving out of the state from those who move in — was slightly more than 26,000 in 2024, down from more than 31,000 in 2023.
The rate of natural increase, meanwhile, did not change for the first time in over ten years.
(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Salt Lake County, however, bucked trends across the state, with 57% of its population growth driven by natural increase, a change from a 51% majority net migration increase in the county in 2023.
“Utah’s recent shift from natural increase to net migration as the primary source of growth represents a continuation of COVID-19 trends, though this year’s data shows a slowing of that initial post-pandemic pattern,” the report read. “These estimates reflect a continuation of slowing after the fast growth exhibited earlier in the decade.”
In the mid-2010s, Utah’s population grew significantly and was up more than 2% a year for several years in a row. That increase slowed from 2018 through 2020, but increased again in 2021. It has fallen in the years since.
Piute County, which has an estimated 1,649 residents, saw the highest amount of change in the state, with a 5.3% population increase. Next, with a 3.1% population increase, Tooele County added 5,000 new residents, up from a 2.2% increase in the country in 2023. Utah and Washington counties both saw 3.0% increases, while several others grew by more than 2.0%, including Rich (2.9%), Iron (2.8%), Juab (2.7%), and Wasatch (2.3%).
“Utah County has been the largest driver of statewide growth for the last five years and accounts for 43% of the population increase in 2024,” the Gardner report read. “Salt Lake (24%), Washington (12%), and Tooele (5%) counties also contributed large shares of state growth in 2024.”
Eight counties, meanwhile, lost population — including Daggett, Emery, Carbon, Sevier, Uintah, Garfield, Summit, and Kane. Six counties — Carbon, Garfield, Daggett, Wayne, Piute, and Rich — had more deaths than births from 2023 to 2024.
(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)
“Typically, slower-growing counties are fueled by natural increase, with less or negative net migration, and faster-growing counties are fueled more by net migration,” the report read. “In 2024, net migration drove growth in 11 counties, a drop from last year when 17 counties’ growth were fueled by net migration. Of the 11 counties with large shares of net migration, 8 of them had growth rates higher than the state.”
Once the state with the highest birth rate in the United States, a 2022 Gardner report found Utah fourth in fertility rates across the country, and Republican Gov. Spencer Cox has repeatedly raised concerns about the state’s declining birth rate. “It’s not our thing anymore,” he said at the Utah Valley Growth and Prosperity Summit last November. “No one has figured out why the world has stopped having babies yet, but we are trending off a demographic cliff.”
Still, a Gardner report from last fall estimated that Utah’s population will grow by an additional 500,000 people from 2024 through 2033, with an average annual growth rate of 1.5%. “The short-term projections indicate continued statewide population growth driven by a nearly 50/50 split between natural increase and net migration out to 2033,” Gardner’s director of demographic research Mallory Bateman said in a statement at the time. “Continued economic growth largely drives this migration of new residents to Utah.”
This population growth may also mean that Utah could earn a fifth Congressional seat in the 2030 redistricting, several groups that follow reapportionment told The Salt Lake Tribune in November. The Gardner Institute has said they expect much of that growth to be concentrated in the Wasatch Front.
This story is developing and may be updated.
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The LA Clippers head to Delta Center to face the Utah Jazz in a Western Conference matchup. The Clippers are 29-23, which puts the team sixth place. The Jazz are 13-40, which puts the team in 14th place.
The Clippers have lost three of their last five games, and are coming off a win over the Jazz. The Jazz have also lost three of their last five games, but are coming off a win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
LA Clippers vs. Utah Jazz in the NBA starts at 9 p.m. ET on Feb. 13. This game takes place at Delta Center in Salt Lake City.
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – As more rain and high winds make their way into Southern California, forecasters are continuing to increase their precipitation predictions. The storm system, described as “significant” by the National Weather Service, will bring rain, high-elevation snow and gusty winds to the region, but according to NWS, there is “not much to […]
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Help for low-income Utahns seeking to become homeowners near Utah Inland Port Authority project areas could be coming under a bill advanced by state lawmakers Wednesday.
State law already permits the use of up to 10% of the general differential revenue collected through inland port developments to be used to pay for affordable housing in or near one of the dozen project areas throughout Utah, including 16,000 acres in the northwest quadrant of Salt Lake County.
But SB250, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore, R-Draper, gets more specific, calling for the revenue to be used to “assist low-income individuals and families who would qualify for income targeted housing to achieve homeownership, or retain homeownership, within a 15-mile radius of the project area.”
Cullimore told the Deseret News the new language “expands this to more home ownership,” as opposed to helping Utahns get into apartments or other rental properties. He said it’s part of the Utah Legislature’s efforts this session to add more “little tools, here and there” to address the state’s housing needs.
“We need all types of products in the housing market. But we’ve actually seen a pretty big proliferation of rental housing,” the majority leader said. “Our rents are still high, but they’ve actually stabilized. But home ownership has not stabilized. So I think the focus will be on more, what incentives can we do for attainable type home ownership housing.”
His bill passed unanimously out of the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee and now heads to the full Senate.
The committee’s chairman, Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, asked Cullimore about limiting the housing that could be funded to within a 15-mile radius of an inland port project area.
“For the inland port, it’s all permissive,” Cullimore answered, adding that “because oftentimes an inland port area that might be subject to tax increment financing may or may not be appropriate for housing, it just gave them a little bit more parameters to do housing should they choose to do it.”
He said the option to use the revenues for housing could be transferred to a local housing authority or other nonprofit.
McCay also wanted to know if the inland port authority could zone property to develop low-income housing. When he was told that’s not the case, McCay said, “that’s good to know. I just wasn’t sure how we were expanding the scope of the inland port.”
Utah Inland Port Authority Executive Director Ben Hart told the Deseret News that housing “is in the conversation in every project area.”
Hart said the inland port authority did not seek the change in the law. Nor has it taken a position on the bill, although Hart noted he doesn’t “see any red flags. If it was compulsory and we were being forced to do something, we would probably take a little stronger stand one way or the other.”
Some entities that share in the inland port project revenues are already contributing funds to local housing authorities, he said.
As for housing fits into the inland port authority’s mission, Hart said that’s left “up to the collaborative processes for cities to work through. Obviously, we’re primarily industrially oriented, so trying to fit and co-locate housing nearby can be a little bit difficult. But several of our project areas are working to include housing.”
The inland port authority “may not necessarily provide financial support for those efforts but it’s certainly something that we are pro, and for. Because housing and workforce go together. Workforce is the lifeblood of the economy and so having well-planned communities really makes sense,” he said, expressing interest in supporting “economic areas of strength wherever we can. And that definitely includes housing.”
Still, how money is used in the project areas is often “predetermined. So it’s hard for us to go back and say we’re going to pry 10% loose from other projects,” Hart said. “We’re already very focused on industrial properties. We already are focused on logistics projects.”
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Source: Utah News
Last year, BYU and Utah played each other on November 9th after both teams had bye weeks. There was a lot of prime college football inventory that weekend for the networks to choose from, so the rivalry game was pushed to a less desirable 8:15 PM Mountain Time kickoff and was broadcast on ESPN.
Given the late time slot, the rivalry game pulled good ratings. The average viewers throughout the game was 2.07 million, one of the best numbers for the late-night ESPN window in 2024. 2.07 million was the second highest number for a game in the late-night ESPN window, behind only Cincinnati-Colorado.
On the same weekend that BYU beat Utah in 2024, ABC broadcast SEC showdowns Texas at Florida, Ole Miss at Georgia, and Florida at Texas. Michigan also played at Indiana that weekend, and Florida State played Notre Dame.
In 2025, at least as of this writing, there will be similar broadcast competition for the BYU-Utah rivalry game. On that same weekend, SMU and Clemson will play each other in a 2024 ACC Championship rematch.
Ole Miss will play at Georgia on that same weekend, Tennessee will play at Alabama, and Ohio State will play at Wisconsin. Other Big 12 matchups that weekend include Texas Tech at Arizona State and Baylor at TCU. USC will play also Notre Dame, although that game will be broadcast on NBC and won’t compete for a time slot.
In 2025, the BYU-Utah rivalry will have a chance to get a better time slot. If both teams have good records going into that game, BYU-Utah could potentially get the afternoon FOX window or an earlier ESPN timeslot. It will likely depend on the records of both teams going into the game. Last year, Utah’s record negatively impacted the television window.
Source: Utah News
Source: Utah News