Show persons in county received help A total of persons received public assistance in Duchesne County during according to a report by Utah the private governmental research The number of persons on the welfare rolls was equal to approximately of the county's total The proportion of Utah's population receiving public assistance varies from fewer than one percent in Grand County to over nine and one-half percent in adjoining San Juan This Is one of the many Interesting items featured in Utah Foundation's Statistical Abstract of Government in Edition The Foundation's analysis shows that there were on Utah's public assistance rolls in 1962 Tills was equal to 3 11 of the state's total population The number of persons receiving public welfare this year was down by nearly from but was up by over from the 1960 According to the- Abstract Utah's public welfare rolls reached a low point of in 1953 but rose throughout most of the remaining part of the 1950 As observed by Foundation there is a wide variance among Utah's twenty-nine counties in the proportion of their population on public San Juan with its Indian had the highest percentage of welfare recipients in the Other Southern Utah counties with over 6 of their population on welfare rolls are Emery Sanpete Garfield and Piute Most of the counties in the northern part of the state rank low in the proportion of welfare Box Elder Davis Cache Rich and Morgan Counties all have fewer than 2 of their populations on the welfare Other counties having welfare recipients under 2 are Iron Uintah Daggett and Grand |