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Unlike other Utah cities, St. George’s growth isn’t driven by people moving from abroad. That could create future problems for filling local jobs.

“We think of small businesses as being purely economic entities. If they have customers and if they have suppliers near them, they will all thrive. But that's not necessarily true,” said urban planning professor Divya Chandrasekhar.

A new survey from the U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps shows 28.3% or 75.8 million people in the U.S. volunteered with a nonprofit between September 2022 and September 2023. In 2021, the last time the survey was done, COVID shutdowns tanked participation by almost 7 percentage points.

More than a quarter of Utah’s new residents last decade were Hispanic, according to recent U.S. Census data. That’s more than the rest of the country and most other western states.

Population estimates show international migrants were attracted to some of the largest, most urban counties in the U.S. last year.

No surprise, many new Washington County residents are former Californians or older snowbirds — or both!

“People aren't excited about places where there's a terrible lifestyle, where there's a terrible economy,” said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. “And the fact that Utah is changing tells me that we are doing things the right way.”

According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps survey, formal volunteer participation dropped 7% between 2019 and 2021. That's the largest decrease the survey has recorded since a version of it started in 2002.

U.S. Census estimates say that the country's population grew by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration. The United States now has 333.2 million residents.

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Anyone can search the handwritten names and ages of every person counted, where they were living, what they were doing for work and even how much they were making.

A traveling art project has made its way to Ogden. It’s capturing a linguistic portrait of the people who live in the city.