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Central Utah Region

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Utah’s Central Region sits where Interstates 15, 80, and 70 converge, halfway between Denver and Los Angeles. Salt Lake City, the state’s capital, anchors the region as a metropolis of economic growth, infrastructure, and prosperity. Salt Lake and Utah Counties also serve as hubs for innovation and economic development. Just beyond them, shoulder communities offer open land, rural incentives, and room to build at any scale, giving businesses direct access to large markets in every direction.

This region includes the following counties: Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele, Juab, Sanpete.

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2,103,187

Population

1,192,608

Employment

3.8%

Unemployment Rate

$99,712

Median Household Income

99.9

Cost of Living

Steady Strength in Technology

Central Utah is home to active software publishing businesses and computing infrastructure providers offering data processing, web hosting, and related digital services. These form a foundation that’s growing alongside the region’s expanding data center investment. Creekstone is planning a 20-million-square-foot data center campus, the largest data center campus planned anywhere in the world.

A Foothold in Finance

Numerous securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage firms operate in this region, giving financial services companies an established base to build on in what we like to call “the Wall Street of the West!”

Life Science Capacity on the Ground

Medical and diagnostic laboratories are well established along the Wasatch Front, supporting the region’s healthcare infrastructure and life science capacity. The region is home to two nationally recognized healthcare systems, Intermountain Health and the University of Utah.

Transportation and Logistics in Every Direction

This region supports scheduled air transportation and related ground support services, layered on top of the region’s Union Pacific and BNSF rail corridors, and its position where Interstates 15, 80 and 70 converge. Central Utah offers a complete multimodal network for moving goods and people.

Brigham Young University (BYU)

Founded in 1875, BYU is a private institution serving 34,354 undergraduate students. It was ranked #116 in the U.S. News Best National Universities report for 2026.

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University of Utah (U of U)

Established in 1850, this public research university has 38,261 enrollment. It was named the #1 public university in the West by the Wall Street Journal in 2023.

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Utah Valley University (UVU)

Based in Orem, UVU serves 48,670 students, making it the largest university by enrollment in the state

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Other Institutions

Ensign College, Mountainland Technical College, Neumont University, Provo College, Roseman University of Health Sciences, Salt Lake Community College, Snow College, Tooele Technical College, Utah State University (Tooele campus), Westminster University, Western Governors University, Utah State University Extension are other universities in this region that play a critical role in Utah’s education and workforce training network.

Natural Resources

The Foundation for What's Next

Central Utah’s geology gives aerospace and defense, electronics, semiconductors, batteries, automotive, construction, agriculture, fertilizer, chemicals, steel and metallurgy, petroleum refining, jewelry, medical, ceramics, glass, and nuclear power companies a built-in supply chain advantage. Juab County’s Spor Mountain is the only beryllium mine in the U.S. and the largest single source in the world, supplying 70-85% of global beryllium production, an essential mineral to aerospace and defense manufacturing.

Local Raw Materials: Antimony, Arsenic, Beryllium, Bismuth, Clay, Copper, Fluorite, Gold, Gypsum, Indium, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Palladium, Phosphate, Platinum, Potash, Rare Earth Elements, Rhenium, Salt, Scandium, Silver, Tellurium, Tungsten

Central Utah in the News

Manufacturing & Distribution

Stadler Expands in Salt Lake City

Manufacturing & Distribution

Mars Announces $237 Million Nature’s Bakery Facility in Salt Lake City

Information Technology

Texas Instruments Expansion Recognized as “Project of the Year” by Area Development

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Central Utah by the Numbers

Key Regional Industries