Cottonwood Heights, Utah

Cottonwood Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Cottonwood Heights lost 1,082 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -131. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 92nd; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Cottonwood Heights is 1.7 times that size.

Cottonwood Heights covers 9.22 square miles of land, for 3,518 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Cottonwood Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Cottonwood Heights is in

All of Cottonwood Heights's residents live in Salt Lake County, which had 1,216,274 residents in 2024. Cottonwood Heights holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cottonwood Heights

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cottonwood Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 84093, 84121. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Cottonwood Heights is

The Census internal point of Cottonwood Heights is at 40.613700, -111.814600. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 11.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sandy, UT (92,840 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is West Jordan, UT, 9.8 miles away.

Daylight in Cottonwood Heights

At 40.61° N, Cottonwood Heights gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cottonwood Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is Holladay, 3.2 miles away, with 30,588 people.