Over the past year, the population increased by 1.9 percent — or slightly more than 57,500 people — and closely followed behind similar surges in Idaho at 2.2 percent and Nevada at 2.0 percent.
The main reason for the Beehive State’s boom? Is a continuation of its high-birth rate, relative to the rest of the nation.
“Domestic migration drove change in the two fastest-growing states, Idaho and Nevada, while an excess of births over deaths played a major part in the growth of the third fastest-growing state, Utah,” said Luke Rogers, chief of the U.