The Salt Lake City metropolitan area is the

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centered on the city of

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...

Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...

. The

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and the

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currently define the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as comprising two counties: Salt Lake and Tooele. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 1,257,936. The Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area and the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Area were a single metropolitan area known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden Metropolitan Area until being separated in 2005. The metropolitan area is part of the Salt Lake City–Provo–Ogden, UT Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which also includes the

Ogden–Clearfield metropolitan area The Ogden-Clearfield, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is an area consisting of three counties in northern Utah, anchored by the cities of Ogden and Clearfield. As of the 2020 c ...

, the Provo–Orem metropolitan area, the Heber City, Utah micropolitan area, and the Brigham City, Utah micropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, this CSA had a population of 2,701,129, comprising 82.6 percent of Utah's then 3,271,616 residents.

Counties

* Salt Lake * Tooele

Communities

Incorporated places

* Alta * Bluffdale (partial) * Cottonwood Heights * Draper (partial) * Emigration Canyon * Erda * Grantsville * Herriman * Holladay * Kearns * Magna * Midvale * Millcreek * Murray * Ophir * Riverton * Rush Valley *

* Sandy * South Jordan * South Salt Lake * Stockton * Taylorsville * Tooele * Vernon * Wendover * West Jordan * West Valley City * White City

Unincorporated places

* Copperton (

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) * Dugway (census-designated place) *

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(census-designated place) * Pine Canyon * Snowbird * Stansbury Park (census-designated place)

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 968,858 people, 318,150 households, and 231,606 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 86.63%

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, 1.04%

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, 0.90% Native American, 2.43% Asian, 1.15%

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, 5.33% from other races, and 2.53% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 11.71% of the population. The median income for a household in the MSA was $53,036, and the median income for a family was $59,139. Males had a median income of $40,683 versus $26,302 for females. The

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for the MSA was $23,426.

Combined Statistical Area

The

– Provo– Ogden Combined Statistical Area is made up of ten counties in northern Utah and one county in southern Idaho. The statistical area includes three metropolitan areas and two micropolitan areas. *Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) **

MSA ( Salt Lake and Tooele counties) ** Ogden–Clearfield MSA (

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, Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties) ** Provo–Orem MSA ( Juab and

counties) *Micropolitan Statistical Areas (μSAs) ** Heber Micropolitan Statistical Area (

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and Wasatch counties) ** Brigham City (

County, Utah, and Oneida County, Idaho)

References

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