Vernal, Utah

Vernal population, 2020 to 2024

Vernal added 613 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.1%. In the latest year it moved by +87. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Vernal is 55% of it.

Vernal covers 4.62 square miles of land, for 2,316 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Vernal is close to the typical town.

What county Vernal is in

All of Vernal's residents live in Uintah County, which had 38,307 residents in 2024. Vernal holds 27.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Vernal

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Vernal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 84078. 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 Vernal is

The Census internal point of Vernal is at 40.451700, -109.538000. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 125.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Green River, WY (11,474 people), 73.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Provo, UT, 111.8 miles away.

Daylight in Vernal

At 40.45° N, Vernal gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Vernal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is Naples, 2.8 miles away, with 2,492 people.