Morgan County, Utah

Morgan County population, land area and income

Morgan County had 13,093 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 609.2 square miles of land. It ranks 20th of 29 in Utah by population and 28th by land area. That works out to 21.5 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and below the national county median.

The median county-equivalent in Utah has 20,803 residents; Morgan County is somewhat smaller.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $122,672 is in the top tenth among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Morgan County's population changed since 2020

Morgan County gained 707 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a rise of 5.7%. That ranks 15th of 29 in Utah for growth. The median Utah county changed by +5.7%, and the state as a whole by +6.7%.

Since the April 2020 estimates base, Morgan County recorded 584 births and 325 deaths, a natural change of +259. Net international migration added +23 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to +526. The largest single component was domestic migration, which added 526 people.

Where Morgan County is

The Census internal point of Morgan County is at 41.091000, -111.577900. It sits in UTM zone 12N. The map shades Utah's 29 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with Morgan County outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Morgan County

One incorporated place of 1,000+ people has residents in Morgan County, 4,553 people together, or 35% of the county. Each figure counts only the part of the town inside Morgan County; towns marked "part" extend into another county. The largest is Morgan with 4,553.

Counties bordering Morgan County

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 5 neighbors for Morgan County. The most populous is Salt Lake County, UT, with 1,216,274 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Salt Lake County

  1,216,274 people

  34 mi SSW

• Davis County

  378,470 people

  33 mi W

• Weber County

  276,118 people

  20 mi NW

• Summit County

  43,109 people

  35 mi ESE

• Rich County

  2,752 people

  41 mi NNE

Distance to Salt Lake City and the nearest big city

Salt Lake City is 27.1 miles SW of Morgan County's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Salt Lake City, UT (population 217,783), 28.5 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Farmington, UT (population 26,163), 18.6 miles away.

Morgan County FIPS code

The FIPS code of Morgan County is 49029: state code 49 for Utah plus county code 029. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $122,672.