Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City population, 2020 to 2024

Salt Lake City added 17,117 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.5%. In the latest year it moved by +5,950. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Salt Lake City is 11.2 times that size.

Salt Lake City covers 110.89 square miles of land and 0.45 of water, for 1,964 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Salt Lake City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Salt Lake City is in

All of Salt Lake City's residents live in Salt Lake County, which had 1,216,274 residents in 2024. Salt Lake City holds 17.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salt Lake City

17 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Salt Lake City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 84101, 84102, 84103, 84104, 84105, 84106, 84108, 84111, 84112, 84113, 84114, 84115, 84116, 84128, 84138, 84150, 84180. 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 Salt Lake City is

The Census internal point of Salt Lake City is at 40.776900, -111.931000. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 2.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Boise City, ID (237,963 people), 294.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is West Valley City, UT, 7.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,288 m (4,226 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Salt Lake City

At 40.78° N, Salt Lake City gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Salt Lake City daylight page.

Places near Salt Lake City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is North Salt Lake, 4.9 miles away, with 23,593 people.