Fire and Water Damage Restoration, Mold Removal Services in Salt Lake City, Utah

Facts About Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,153,340 (2014 estimate). Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately 120-mile (190 km) segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a population of 2,423,912 as of 2014. It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other is Reno, Nevada).

Geography

Salt Lake City has an area of 110.4 square miles (286 km²) and an average elevation of 4,327 feet (1,319 m) above sea level. The lowest point within the boundaries of the city is 4,210 feet (1,280 m) near the Jordan River and the Great Salt Lake, and the highest is Grandview Peak, at 9,410 feet (2,868 m).

The city is in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges on the eastern and southwestern borders, respectively. Its encircling mountains contain several narrow glacial and stream carved canyons. Among these canyons, City Creek, Emigration, Millcreek, and Parley’s border the eastern city limits.

Demographics

According to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2016, there were 193,744 people in Salt Lake City. The racial makeup of the county was 65.0% non-Hispanic White, 2.5% Black, 1.1% Native American, 5.6% Asian, 1.7% Pacific Islander, and 2.8% from two or more races. 21.6% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

At the 2010 census, Salt Lake City’s population was 75.1% White, 2.6% African American, 1.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 4.4% Asian, 2.0% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 10.7% from other races and 3.7% of mixed descent. 22.3% of the total population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The city’s population has historically been predominantly white. Between 1860 and 1950 whites represented about 99% of the city’s population but this changed dramatically in the decades that followed.

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