Uintah County area

Population and density of Uintah County

The Census Bureau estimates that 38,278 people lived in Uintah County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,252 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #12 of 29 in Utah. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 35,614, the population has grown by 2,664 (+7.5%), compared with +8.2% for Utah as a whole.

With 4,482.9 square miles of land, that is 8.5 people per square mile (3.3 per km²), placing Uintah County #2,701 nationally for density and #16 in Utah. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Utah median is 11. Put another way, there are about 75 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 Uintah County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Uintah County. Together they are home to 14,462 people (37.8%); the other 23,816 (62.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Vernal city, with 10,671 residents in the county. By land, Ballard town is the largest at 14 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Ballard town grew fastest since then (+15.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Uintah County is a central county of the Vernal, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area. Uintah County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 4,482.9 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #30 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #347 by population.

ZIP codes

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Uintah County; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

8400884026840358403984052840538406384066840768407884085

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 Uintah County

Uintah County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 3 in Colorado. It has more land than 6 of them. The largest neighbor is Moffat County (4,743.3 mi²) and the smallest is Daggett County (696.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Uintah County forms a block of 24,478.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.3%.

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

Uintah County has more land than 2 of the 50 states. It is about 2.3 times the land area of Delaware (1,948.6 mi²), while Connecticut, the next larger state, has 1.1 times as much land (4,842.5 mi²). Utah’s county land could hold about 18 areas the size of Uintah County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 67 miles (107.8 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 Uintah County?

Uintah County has more land than 3,120 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 Uintah County at #110 nationally by total area, 8 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 0.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.7 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 Uintah 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.