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St. George, UT
106,288 people, 2024 · Census GEOID 4965330 · Census profile · mayors: being verified
Overall in 2023, St. George ranked #6 of 340 cities and 1st of 14 in its peer group, on 9 of 9 measures. Weigh the measures yourself · how ranks are made
Its peer group is St. George and the 13 cities most like it in 2005 (size, income, poverty, industry, growth, density, place), fixed since: Greeley CO, Midland TX, Odessa TX, Wichita Falls TX, Boulder CO, Billings MT, Fargo ND, Columbia MO, Wilmington NC, Fort Collins CO, Visalia CA, Clarksville TN, Kenosha WI · on the map, and why
| Topline | 2005–2024 | Latest rank | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| Overall rankamong all cities with a score that year | #6 of 340 cities · 1st of 14 in its peer group · 2023 | #25 | #72 | #45 | #19 | #89 | #18 | #53 | #50 | #9 | #27 | #9 | #29 | #4 | #24 | #1 | #19 | #14 | #23 | #6 | #2 | |
| people · size, not ranked | 63,857 | 67,765 | 70,437 | 71,934 | 72,518 | 72,837 | 73,789 | 75,010 | 76,275 | 77,942 | 79,574 | 81,696 | 84,547 | 87,113 | 89,587 | 96,050 | 100,241 | 102,673 | 104,732 | 106,288 | ||
| net movers per 100 residents · estimate · higher is better | #8 of 340 cities · 1st of 14 in its peer group | +6.0 | +4.5 | +2.6 | +1.0 | -0.2 | — | +1.1 | +1.3 | +1.3 | +2.0 | +1.6 | +2.3 | +3.3 | +2.8 | +2.8 | +1.0 | +5.0 | +2.8 | +1.9 | +2.0 | |
| new homes per 1,000 residents · higher is better | #19 of 271 cities with data · 1st of 13 in its peer group with data | 29.2 | 15.8 | 12.3 | — | — | 3.8 | 5.0 | 8.7 | 10.9 | 10.2 | 9.7 | 11.0 | 18.9 | 15.0 | 17.0 | 16.4 | 15.0 | 14.7 | 9.4 | 12.1 | |
| rent as % of income · lower is better | #160 of 340 cities · 11th of 14 in its peer group | — | 24.5% | 24.1% | 21.1% | 22.0% | 20.8% | 21.8% | 25.4% | 19.9% | 21.8% | 20.4% | 21.3% | 20.9% | 21.7% | 19.9% | — | 23.6% | 25.5% | 24.0% | 24.2% | |
| per 100,000 residents · lower is better | #55 of 304 cities with data · 2nd of 13 in its peer group with data | 1.6 | 3.0 | — | 1.4 | — | — | — | — | 1.3 | — | — | — | — | 3.4 | 2.2 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 4.9 | 1.0 | 1.9 | |
| per 100,000 residents · lower is better | #51 of 295 cities with data · 2nd of 14 in its peer group | 11.0 | 4.4 | 14.2 | 0.0 | 12.4 | 8.2 | 9.5 | 12.0 | 10.5 | 15.4 | 10.1 | 17.1 | 7.1 | 23.0 | 13.4 | 9.4 | 17.0 | 19.5 | 14.3 | 18.8 | |
| jobs · size, not ranked | 33,686 | 36,780 | 38,610 | 39,053 | 35,898 | 33,606 | 36,030 | 36,013 | 38,598 | 40,364 | 41,935 | 44,177 | 46,540 | 48,224 | 50,964 | 51,551 | 57,327 | 59,969 | 62,706 | — | ||
| points ahead of the metro · higher is better | #131 of 329 cities with data · 4th of 14 in its peer group · 2023 | -0.9 | -1.5 | +0.1 | +1.9 | +0.4 | +1.1 | -0.2 | -1.1 | +0.0 | -1.4 | +0.8 | -1.4 | +0.4 | -2.1 | +1.9 | -0.6 | -0.7 | -0.8 | +0.4 | — | |
| people · size, not ranked | — | — | — | — | — | — | 23,799 | 30,669 | 30,970 | 32,293 | 33,667 | 34,906 | 36,421 | 34,375 | 37,838 | — | 43,801 | 44,954 | 48,697 | 49,292 | ||
| % of workforce · lower is better | #23 of 340 cities · 4th of 14 in its peer group | — | — | — | — | — | — | 17.7% | 8.8% | 4.7% | 4.7% | 4.3% | 4.6% | 4.5% | 2.9% | 2.3% | — | 4.7% | 3.3% | 3.9% | 3.0% | |
| % of promises funded · not ranked: 38 cities report | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| surplus as % of revenue · higher is better | #5 of 314 cities with data · 3rd of 14 in its peer group | 44% | 43% | 38% | 48% | 47% | 40% | 29% | 31% | 35% | 37% | 30% | 30% | 39% | 36% | 37% | 43% | 47% | 50% | 49% | 51% | |
| dollars per resident · lower is better | #40 of 314 cities with data · 2nd of 14 in its peer group | $4,287 | $2,903 | $2,554 | $3,386 | $4,249 | $4,042 | $3,560 | $2,867 | $2,555 | $2,184 | $2,005 | $2,014 | $1,648 | $1,395 | $1,214 | $1,463 | $1,232 | $958 | $817 | $701 |
Click a row for its source and its rank in every year. 1st is best whichever way the measure points. A rank is out of all 340 cities, or out of its peer group of 14; where some had no value that year it says “with data” and counts only those. An em dash is a year the source does not hold for St. George. A greyed homicide figure is a year the FBI holds as a transition year for this department. What each row is, and is not, is on the main page, with a link to every source in Sources.