Moab, Utah

Moab population, 2020 to 2024

Moab lost 127 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -32. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 91st; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Moab is 27% of it.

Moab covers 4.81 square miles of land, for 1,090 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Moab is less dense than the typical town.

What county Moab is in

All of Moab's residents live in Grand County, which had 9,788 residents in 2024. Moab holds 53.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Moab

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Moab by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 84532. 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 Moab is

The Census internal point of Moab is at 38.570100, -109.547800. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 196.8 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fruita, CO (13,912 people), 59.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Provo, UT, 161.0 miles away.

Daylight in Moab

At 38.57° N, Moab gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Moab

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is Monticello, 49.8 miles away, with 1,757 people.