Payson, Utah

Payson population, 2020 to 2024

Payson added 3,330 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +15.6%. In the latest year it moved by +369. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Payson is 1.3 times that size.

Payson covers 13.16 square miles of land, for 1,874 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Payson is less dense than the typical town.

What county Payson is in

All of Payson's residents live in Utah County, which had 747,234 residents in 2024. Payson holds 3.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Payson

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Payson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 84651. 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 Payson is

The Census internal point of Payson is at 40.035900, -111.738800. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 51.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spanish Fork, UT (47,809 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Provo, UT, 15.3 miles away.

Daylight in Payson

At 40.04° N, Payson gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Payson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is Elk Ridge, 3.7 miles away, with 5,003 people.