Metro · Density Score
Salt Lake City, UT
Metro area in Utah
72 Combined score #7 of 109 metros
- Economic
- 74 #9 of 109
- Innovation (Startup & VC)
- 70 #9 of 109
Salt Lake City ranks #7 overall, #9 in Startup & VC and #9 in Economy among 109 U.S. metros.
Highlights
- #3 of 109: 906 STEM degrees per 100k people
- #5 of 109: 0.63 Series B+ rounds per year per 100k people
- #6 of 109: $120K GDP per person
The inputs
Ranks are among the metros with data for each input; higher is better.
- Venture capital per year, per 100k people
- $62M #9 of 109
- Early-stage rounds per year, per 100k people
- 3.2 #10 of 109
- Series B+ rounds per year, per 100k people
- 0.63 #5 of 109
- Startup exits per year, per 100k people
- 0.66 #7 of 102
- GDP per person
- $120K #6 of 109
- Patents per 100k people
- 46 #25 of 103
- STEM degrees per 100k people
- 906 #3 of 109
- Tech share of jobs
- 5.2% #9 of 109
- Net migration of 25–44 year olds, per 100k people
- +274 #25 of 109
Top companies
The largest companies headquartered in this metro, by latest annual revenue.
- PACS Group Inc. $5.3B
- FJ Management $4.7B
- Zions Bancorporation N.A. $3.4B
- Extra Space Storage Inc $3.4B
- PROG Holdings Inc. $2.4B
Roots Density Data, All Companies (public: SEC filings; private: Forbes Top Private Companies 2025). Ranked by latest annual revenue.
