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Show Per capita income in Uintah and Daggett shows increase Uintah County's per capita income continues to climb, as shown by figures recently released by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Utah. Compared to the state average of $6,594 annual income per person in 1978 the county is 6 percent lower with $6,221. Utah ranks 39th of the 50 states in the nation in personal income. However, the state has been growing at an annual real rate of 12 percent before the recession began this year. This compares to a 10 percent growth rate in the country. Concentration of personal income continues to be held along the Wasatch Front. Salt Lake County alone has 47.6 percent of total personal income in the state. The Wasatch Front counties of Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, and Weber produce pro-duce 80 percent of the total personal income in-come in Utah, from 76 percent of the state's total population. Uintah County has 1.3 percent of the state's $8,621.5 million personal income with a total of $115.2 million. Daggett County is 18 percent lower than the state average with $5,405 annual an-nual income per person in 1978. Daggett has less than one percent of the state's personal income for a total of $4.3 million. The per capita personal income in Utah counties in 1978 is shown by the following list, with the highest at the top: Salt Lake 700 Grand 7182 Weber 6 864 Carbon 6,837 Morgan 6,734 Box Elder 6,700 Average 6,594 Davis 6,580 Summit 6,382 Tooele 6,328 Uintah 6,221 Cache 5795 Emery 5J88 Sevier 5,788 Beaver 5,590 Millard 5,585 Garfield 5,574 Daggett 5,405 Utah 5,331 Iron 5,260 Wasatch 5,245 Duchesne 5,158 Piute 5,115 Wayne 5,021 Washington 4,992 Rich 4,840 Kane 4,796 Juab 4,650 Sanpete 4,616 San Juan 3,833 |
