Salt Lake City is a relatively large city located in the state of Utah. With a population of 181,456 people and 71 constituent neighborhoods, Salt Lake City is the largest community in Utah.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Salt Lake City is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Salt Lake City is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salt Lake City who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.24%), sales jobs (10.20%), and management occupations (8.18%).

Also of interest is that Salt Lake City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Salt Lake City really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Salt Lake City is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Salt Lake City more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Salt Lake City's character and quality of life.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Salt Lake City spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.15 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Salt Lake City Information and Demographics

The population of Salt Lake City is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.90% of adults in Salt Lake City have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Salt Lake City in 2000 was $20,752, which is wealthy relative to Utah, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,008 for a family of four.

Salt Lake City is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Salt Lake City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Salt Lake City is White, followed by Asian. Salt Lake City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.79% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Salt Lake City include English, German, Irish, Danish, Scottish, Swedish, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Salt Lake City's cultural character, accounting for 18.33% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in Salt Lake City is English. Some people also speak Spanish.