Kearns, Utah

Kearns population, 2020 to 2024

Kearns added 2,661 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1,208. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Kearns is 2.0 times that size.

Kearns covers 4.63 square miles of land, for 8,509 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Kearns is denser than the typical town.

What county Kearns is in

All of Kearns's residents live in Salt Lake County, which had 1,216,274 residents in 2024. Kearns holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kearns

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kearns by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the metro township's land: 84118. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a metro township that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Kearns is

The Census internal point of Kearns is at 40.651900, -112.009400. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 10.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West Valley City, UT (138,144 people), 2.5 miles away.

Daylight in Kearns

At 40.65° N, Kearns 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kearns

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is West Valley City, 2.5 miles away, with 138,144 people.