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What sets Salt Lake City's economy apart

Compared with the United States as a whole, the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro has an unusually large share of its businesses in medical device and other manufacturing: 186 establishments, 1.8 times the national share. Next come furniture manufacturing (110 establishments, 1.7 times) and computer and electronic products (74 establishments, 1.5 times). Of the 61 metros on these pages with published figures for medical device and other manufacturing, Salt Lake City ranks 2nd, behind Providence, RI.

Device and specialty manufacturers share regulatory files, patents and supplier quality records during diligence.

Furniture makers selling a business share dealer agreements, product designs and plant records. In furniture manufacturing, Salt Lake City leads every metro on these pages.

How Salt Lake City compares

The Census Bureau estimated the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro's population at 1,300,762 in July 2024, up 42,828 or 3.4 percent on the April 2020 base of 1,257,934.

Measured against the 2023 estimate of 1,282,681, the same year as the business count, Salt Lake City has 57.2 offices of lawyers per 100,000 residents, 21st of the 59 metro areas on these pages against a median of 52.6; the nearest rates are Portland, OR at 57.1 and Billings, MT at 57.0.

The metro with the closest number of law offices is Raleigh, NC, with 736; the metro closest in population, Louisville, KY at 1,394,234 residents, has 618 law offices and 475 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments.

Counted by accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms instead, Salt Lake City's nearest match is Nashville, TN, with 655.

• Residents, July 2024: 1,300,762
• Residents, April 2020 base: 1,257,934
• Change since 2020: +42,828 (3.4 percent), 25th of 59
• Law offices per 100,000 residents: 57.2, 21st of 59
• Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll per 100,000 residents: 52.2, 10th of 59
• Securities and investment per 100,000 residents: 50.8, 8th of 59
• Managing offices per 100,000 residents: 17.6, 13th of 59
• Real estate agents and brokers per 100,000 residents: 96.8, 5th of 59
• Employees in offices of lawyers: about 5,700
• Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 6,100

The courts and regulators behind Salt Lake City paperwork

When a Salt Lake City dispute reaches federal court, it goes to the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, whose Salt Lake City courthouse is the Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse.

CPAs practicing in Utah are licensed by the Utah Board of Accountancy.

If personal information in a Salt Lake City deal, audit or case file is exposed, Utah's data breach notification law sets who has to be told and when.