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Show 3m?w Residents Rmnk Third In Utah Income By TOM BUSSELBERG CLEARFIELD -- Davis County families on average garnered the third highest income in-come among fellow Utah counties and lived in homes that ranked second, when average cost is considered. THOSE FACTS, and dozens of others like them, come out of the 1980 "Population of Utah Atlas" just released by the Clearfield Clear-field Job Service and their labor market information in-formation section in Salt Lake City. "It covers 36 population attributes," says Job Service Manager Jack Bailey, noting not-ing such facts as that Emery County was the fastest growing of the state's 29 counties, adding more than one resident for everyone w ho was there in 1970. down toone in seven added in Piute, for the lowest while the state as a whole grew by 38 percent. SALT LAKE County, as might be expected, ex-pected, is the most densely populated, at 819 per square mile,, Mr. Bailey notes, meaning that if every square mile was equally equal-ly developed, that many people-on average-would live there. Davis County, as the state's smallest county in land area, came in second, at 490. Those figures vary starkly with the almost empty Garfield county, averaging less than a person per square mile. The state average isn't much higher, at only 18. Looking more closely at Davis County's 146.000 people (in 1980 census), or ajump of nearly 50 percent over the 1970 count, about one in every 26 is of Hispanic origin, vs. the state average of just over one for every 25, Mr. Bailey notes. IT'S A YOUNG county, as many young families and school administrators can confirm, con-firm, w ith the median age at 22.4 about Wi years under the state's 24 that's the lowest in the country. More than four of 10 residents resi-dents are under age 18, seven percent higher than neighboring Weber and five percent over Salt Lake. Just over half the population-54.1 percent-are in the big 18-64 age bracket w hile just about one in 24 is over 65, in the county, vs. about one in 14 state-wide. BURGEONING school enrollments again reflect the high fertility in the state of 515 per thousand women ages 15-49, surpassed in the county where it's 553-higher than Utah County by a small margin. Households are big in several ways, in the county, as well, averaging a third of a person per-son larger-at 3.58-than the state average, while the county's families, who often include in-clude some living away from home, are nearly four-at 3.89 vs. 3.67 for the state average. ONLY 2.2 percent live in group quarters in the county, compared with 1.7 in the state, but that probably reflects about 2,000 living in such facilities at the Clearfield and Weber Basin Job Corps. If you decided long ago that marriage is definitely "in," in the county, the statistics bear you out, with four-fifths of families headed by both spouses in the home, while just over two-thirds are so constituted in the state, Mr. Bailey says. "OTHER family," or two or more people living together, make up one in 12 situations, situa-tions, while of the 39,000 families, 24,417 have children. On the other hand, nine percent per-cent of families, or one in II, have females at their head in the county with 7,405 residents resi-dents listed as divorced or widowed, for nearly one in 13. Davis County exemplifies the American dream of owning your own home, where 77.7 percent-or nearly four in five-homes are owner-occupied, at 64,000 residences. That compares to seven in 10 owner-occupied owner-occupied statewide varying from 17 of 20 so occuied in Sevier (Richfield), Piute, and Juab (Nephi) vs. less than three in five in Daggett (Manilla). AT AN AVERAGE value (at census time) of $64,400, houses in the county held a higher high-er value than anywhere else but Summit, with that county having many higher-priced units at Park City, for example. It costs a little more to rent, in Davis County-at S210 per month in 1980 vs. the state average of S187 and rents of S203 in Salt Lake and only $174 in Weber. Conditions are generally uncrowded, in the county, with only 4.7 percent of units housing more than one person per room vs. 5.8 percent in the state. JUST OVER one-third of the near 15,000 residents counted in the census were born in the stateat 36.9 percent foreign born-just slightly under the state's 66.3 percent native-bom. Reflecting the mobility evident more than ever, today, more than one-third--at 35.1 percent-lived in another county between be-tween 1975-80. Some other statistics: 2.8 percent of housing units were condominiums; one in seven households had more than six members; mem-bers; two-fifths of mothers have babies under six; 56.2 percent of the county's residents resi-dents work in Davis County, lowest in-county in-county percentage of any county w hile just over one-fourth the workers w ere employed in government. THE CHERRY orchard days are long gone, for the most part, as noted in only 1.5 percent employed in agriculture vs. 2.2 statew ise compared to less than one percent in Salt Lake and over nine percent in Morgan. High-school completers number 83.6 percent, per-cent, slightly above the state average, while one in six has completed four or more years of college. Median family income came in third behind Carbon (Price), and Morgan, at just below 522,000. |