Nephi, Utah

Nephi population, 2020 to 2024

Nephi added 851 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.1%. In the latest year it moved by +208. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Nephi is 38% of it.

Nephi covers 5.48 square miles of land, for 1,337 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Nephi is less dense than the typical town.

What county Nephi is in

All of Nephi's residents live in Juab County, which had 13,297 residents in 2024. Nephi holds 55.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nephi

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nephi by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 84648. 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 Nephi is

The Census internal point of Nephi is at 39.704700, -111.833300. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 74.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Santaquin, UT (18,394 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Provo, UT, 38.6 miles away.

Daylight in Nephi

At 39.70° N, Nephi gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Nephi

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is Mona, 7.4 miles away, with 1,950 people.