Daggett County

The median income of households in Daggett County, Utah was $66,000. An estimated 3.1% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 4.2% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 69.1% of households received earnings. An estimated 42.7% of households received Social Security and an estimated 37.2 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $23,221. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2020-2024, 9 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 3% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 9.7% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 11.2% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2020-2024, 5.2 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 46.7% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 60% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 0% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Daggett County, Utah in 2020-2024, 89.6% had health insurance coverage and 10.4% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 73.8% and public coverage was 32.5%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 15%.

In 2020-2024, Daggett County, Utah had a total population of 783 - 318 (40.6%) females and 465 (59.4%) males. The median age was 46 years. An estimated 21.1% of the population was under 18 years, 21.6% was 19 to 44 years, 30.8% was 45 to 64 years, and 21.1 % was 65 years and older.

In 2020-2024, there were 288 households in Daggett County, Utah. The average household size was 2.49 people.

Married-couple households made up 54.5% of the households in Daggett County, Utah while cohabiting couple households made up 2.4% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 13.5% of all households, while 29.5% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 28.8% of households were male householders living alone, and 12.2% were female householders living alone, for a total of 41% of all households.

In Daggett County, Utah, 23.3% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 37.8% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2020-2024, an estimated 99.1% of the people living in Daggett County, Utah were U.S. natives. 63.5% of the Daggett County, Utah population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 0.9% of Daggett County, Utah residents in 2020-2024 were foreign-born. 0% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 100 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Daggett County, Utah come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2020-2024 for Daggett County, Utah.

Among people at least five years old living in Daggett County, Utah in 2020-2024, 2.2 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 1.1% of people at least five years old; 0.9% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2020-2024, 83.4 % of the people at least one year old living in Daggett County, Utah were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2020-2024, 92.7 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 17.6% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 7.3% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Daggett County, Utah was 179 in 2020-2024. Nursery school enrollment was 4 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 148. College or graduate school enrollment was 27.

In Daggett County, Utah, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2020-2024, 16 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 0% of people under 18 years old, to 13.7% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 37.6% of those 65 and over.

In Daggett County, Utah, 46.2 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 49.2% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 42.4% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 39.7% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 18 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2020-2024, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Daggett County, Utah worked in the following industries:

An estimated 76.9% of Daggett County, Utah workers drove to work alone in 2020-2024, and 12.6% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 20.9 minutes to get to work.

In 2020-2024, Daggett County, Utah had a total of 1,163 housing units. Of these housing units, 61.3% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 0% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 38.5% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

10.8% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 4.2% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Daggett County, Utah was 5.5 rooms, and of these housing units 69.4% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2020-2024, Daggett County, Utah had 288 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 875 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 82.3% while renters occupied 17.7%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.57 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.14.

4.9% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 1.7% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 0% and another 43.8% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Daggett County, Utah:

In 2020-2024, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Daggett County, Utah was $282,300.

Of the owner-occupied households, 41.8 % had a mortgage. 58.2% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $1,375 and for owners without a mortgage it was $565.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Daggett County, Utah was $900. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.