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.

Salt Lake City is made interesting by being both a reasonably big city and having a major college student population: students here will find that the city provides a lot of amenities, culture, and opportunities for them. Salt Lake City is more than just a college town, however, though the thousands of students certainly are a major part of the character of the city, as well as a contributor to the local economy.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.15 minutes getting to work every day.

Salt Lake City Information and Demographics

The citizens of Salt Lake City are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 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.

In addition, Salt Lake City has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (18.33%).

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