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Show Depressed Hconomy County Population Increases- But At Much Slower Pace " 1U TOM 1U SSI-1 HI KC N You probably wouldn t lose many lifts if )U wagered the population in Ii is Coun-! Coun-! jM1't e.ictl growing b leaps and ouiuU. thoo das. -; .S A M V Y l'KK of fael. I lie dcpicsscd .vnorny lias tut the county as well as the . ;st of tlie nation, although the population ' ' is, in fact, continued its rise. According to lpiil.uion figures updated to July I, p)S2, Vuimates. Haws' population ranged from 'w'.vut I5".5iX to nearly ItiO.lHXt, depending n which slatisties aie utilized. In a report released h the University of Utah's Bureau of Economic and Business Research, the county 's population grew In ' ' 5 percent, just under the state's average of T( 6 percent. i THAT INCREASE, though, wasn't as a suli of people moving in, hut more from ie natural increase brought on by new ' " irths exceeding deaths. In fact, the school enrollment method" indicated a tcreaseof 144 students w hile net migration icrcased it indicates, by S"0. Hut that was vercome by a natural increase of 3.526 or ''-j increase of about 2.500. For the state, a population of 1,5m), 0Xt as "agreed upon" as the estimate after - jmpiling data from the several population -"jurces: school enrollment and LDS mem- trship. - IN THE report prepared hv four staff members ut the Hureau, it indicates "net nWation was the lowest it has been since N4: tins decline was expected because of the slowdown in economic activity." The bulk of population grow th occurred in the Wasatch Front counties, including Davis Salt l ake, Utah and Weber. Salt Lake County saw the greatest jump at 14.0(H), while Utah followed at 6 MM) Oavis at 3,800 and Weber by 3,1X10. totalling more than tw o-thirds of the increase for the state. SUBSTANTIAL growth was also recorded re-corded in Cache, Carbon, Sanpete, Uintah and Washington counties, the report notes, with greatest percentage increase reported by Uintah, in an area of energy-related grow th, of 8.6 percent. That was followed closely by Millard County, site of the huge Intermountain Power Project facility. On the other end of the scale, three counties coun-ties actually recorded losses in population, according to the estimates: Grand, at 3.6 percent. Wasatch at 1.1 percent and Tooele at nearly half a percentage point. HERE'S THE populations for some neighboring counties, followed by the 19X0 official census: Salt Lake, 655,384 (619.1)66); Davis. 157,946 ( 146,540); Weber, 151,018 (144.616); Morcan, 5.249 (4,917); Utah. 235.5(H) (2 18.106); Box Llder. 34.900 (33,222) and Cache. 62,306 (57.176). The state's population was listed at 1.461,038 in the official census. |
