Yes, out-of-staters are moving here, but the homegrown populace accounts for a bigger share than is found in most neighboring locales.
Salt Lake City, shown in November 2021. While out-of-staters are moving into Utah, most residents were born in the state.Spurred on by my colleague Daedan Olander’s description this week of howduring the past year, I was inspired to dig into a related question: How many Utahns are from Utah?
How does that compare to other states? Luckily for me, this is an issue in which a lot of demographers have created some beautiful maps. A map, byThe number of people in each state who were born in that state. But that only 47% of Idahoans were born in Idaho stunned me, especially given that state’s demographic similarities to Utah. Colorado and Wyoming are beautiful places to live, but, still, they don’t have a majority of their population being born in the state. And all of those so-called Californians invading Utah? Well, nearly half aren’t originally from California at all. Perhaps there is less discussion of transplants there, because many folks are transplants.
More transplants came in, though, in the ensuing decades — not enough to make drastic changes in the proportion but a couple of percentage points per census. By the time we reached 2000, transplants made up 63% of Utah’s population. That number has hovered around there for the past 20 years. And that’s despite increases to the number of residents who now live in Utah but come from other countries, not just other U.S. states., shows a similar graph for all 50 states.
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