Salt Lake City

I did some quick numbers of Salt Lake City, specifically looking at 20-40 year olds and mormons.

The population of Utah in 2010 was 2,763,000.

In the Salt Lake Metropolitan area the population in 2010 was 1,124,000. 

For the ages of 20-40 years old in Utah the population was about 850,000.

If you extrapolate Utah’s population that lives in the Salt Lake Metro area, the population of 20-40 year olds in Salt Lake is somewhere between 345,000 (40%) to 425,000 (50%). 

An SLTrib article attributes the mormon population in Utah is 60%. Considering the highest density of non-mormons are in Salt Lake, you can conclude that the non-Mormon 20-40 year old population in Salt Lake City is somewhere between 170,000 (40% non-Mormon) and 300,000 (70% non-Mormon) using 425,000 as the base number.

Interesting to say the least.  Obviously, with each calculation (and estimate) we get less accurate. However, it gives a good general idea of what’s going on here.