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Utah Statistics

11.5% of Utah residents lived below the poverty level in 2009, compared to the national poverty rate of 14.3%.
316,217 Utah residents lived in poverty in 2009, 58,568 more than in 2008.
Utah’s unemployment rate of 7.4% in August 2010 is the highest the state has seen since December 1983.
Over the past 30 years, Utah’s poverty percentage has stayed below the national average.
Utah’s per capita income is 1.3% below the national average.
14,829 bankruptcy cases were filed in 2009 – the highest increase in ten years.
Utah’s child poverty rate was 10.5% in 2008 and 12.2% in 2009.
Utah had the 14^th lowest poverty rate in the nation in 2009.
More than 1 in 4 female-headed households in Utah lived in poverty in 2009.
In 2004, the top 20% of earners commanded 58% of earned income in the US. From 2009 to 2009, Utah’s job growth decreased by 3.8%.
Wasatch County suffered a 10.4% increase in job loss from 2009 to 2010.

Poverty Rate 11.8%
Change in Poverty Rate 3.5%
Utah County has the youngest population in the state, with a median age of 25.1 years.
Utah County is the second most populous county in Utah.
14.7 percent of all payroll jobs in the state are located in Utah County.
61,648 individuals live in poverty in Utah County
17,935 children live in poverty in Utah County