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Utah Counties

Complete list of all 29 counties in Utah with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties
29
Population
3,344,663
Area
82,170 sq mi
Capital
Salt Lake City
Time Zone
Mountain (MT)
Labeled map of Utah counties

Labeled outline map of Utah counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

All 28 Utah counties

County County Seat Population Area Median Income Cities
Salt Lake1,199,921742 mi²$101,88411
Utah701,0702,003 mi²$103,02619
Davis362,366299 mi²$111,37410
Weber278,206576 mi²$91,2545
Washington196,5012,426 mi²$82,99919
Cache140,0461,165 mi²$84,43416
Tooele79,4346,941 mi²$106,3568
Iron62,1803,297 mi²$66,7129
Box Elder61,1265,746 mi²$85,01318
Uintah33,8504,480 mi²$74,6338
Wasatch33,6881,176 mi²$113,6743
Sanpete30,0241,590 mi²$69,76615
Duchesne23,3393,241 mi²$77,93112
Sevier22,0861,911 mi²$73,68412
Carbon20,5171,478 mi²$57,7516

How many counties does Utah have?

Utah has 29 counties covering 82,170 square miles and roughly 3,344,663 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1896 as the 45th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.

The largest county by land area is San Juan County at 7,820 square miles, home to about 12,847 residents. The most populous is Salt Lake County with approximately 1,199,921 residents — a density of about 1,617 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Daggett County has only about 775 residents.

Salt Lake City is both the state capital and the largest city in Utah.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Utah’s county boundaries from our blank map of Utah page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Utah county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Utah address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Utah specifically: the 100-mile radius around Salt Lake City measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Utah ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Utah’s 29 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Utah has 29 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1896 as the 45th state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.
San Juan County is the largest by land area at 7,820 square miles, with about 12,847 residents.
Salt Lake County is the most populous, with approximately 1,199,921 residents over 742 square miles.
Daggett County has the smallest population at about 775 residents.
Salt Lake City is both the state capital and the largest city in Utah.
Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.
Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.

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