Juab County area

Population and density of Juab County

The Census Bureau estimates that 13,567 people lived in Juab County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,256 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #19 of 29 in Utah. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 11,780, the population has grown by 1,787 (+15.2%), compared with +8.2% for Utah as a whole.

With 3,391.8 square miles of land, that is 4 people per square mile (1.5 per km²), placing Juab County #2,906 nationally for density and #18 in Utah. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Utah median is 11. Put another way, there are about 160 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Juab County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Juab County. Together they are home to 12,135 people (89.4%); the other 1,432 (10.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Nephi city, with 7,488 residents in the county. By land, Santaquin city is the largest at 10.6 mi² across all its counties. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Nephi city grew fastest since then (+16.2%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Juab County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Juab County is an outlying county of the Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 773,426 residents on 5,396.3 square miles of land; Juab County accounts for 62.9% of the land and 1.8% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #44 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #82 by population. It belongs to the Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Juab County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

840228403484628846398464584648

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Juab County

Juab County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 1 in Nevada. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is White Pine County (8,886.7 mi²) and the smallest is Sanpete County (1,589.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Juab County forms a block of 29,698.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.4%.

How big is Juab County compared with U.S. states?

Juab County has more land than 2 of the 50 states. It is about 1.7 times the land area of Delaware (1,948.6 mi²), while Connecticut, the next larger state, has 1.4 times as much land (4,842.5 mi²). Utah’s county land could hold about 24 areas the size of Juab County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 58.2 miles (93.7 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Juab County?

Juab County has more land than 3,074 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Juab County at #159 nationally by total area, 11 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 percentage points lower. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Juab County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.