Salt Lake County
$9.4B in FY2025 federal spending, $7,965 per capita.
Utah · FIPS 49035
In FY2025, Salt Lake County in Utah received $9.4B in federal spending - $7,965 per capita for a population of 1,185,238. This is 49.1% below the national average and 10.5% below the Utah average. The leading federal agency by spending share is Social Security Administration. By per-capita federal spending, it ranks #12 of 29 Utah counties.
- Total spending
- $9.4B
- Per capita
- $7,965
- vs. national avg
- -49.1%
- Fiscal year
- FY2025
The verdict
Salt Lake County posts below-median federal per-capita spending nationally, with spending dominated by Social Security Administration.
- National per-capita rank
- Top 54%
- of 3,232 US counties
- Per-capita spending
- $7,965
- Leading agency
- Social Security Administration
- 62.4% of tracked spending
- Utah rank
- #12 of 29
How Salt Lake County Compares
Per-capita federal spending: Salt Lake County vs. Utah and the nation
Population: 1,185,238 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.
Leading Federal Agencies in Salt Lake County
Top awarding agencies in Salt Lake County, FY2025
Among the 1,150 US counties with agency-level spending data, Social Security Administration is the most common leading agency nationally, topping 86% of agency-tracked counties.
These 3 agencies together account for $5.9B (62.7%) of Salt Lake County's $9.4B in total tracked federal spending -- the remainder is spread across smaller awarding agencies not individually broken out in this dataset.
All 3 individually-tracked agencies are shown above - Salt Lake County has no smaller residual awarding agencies broken out beyond this set, a compact agency footprint rather than a long tail of minor awardees.
Read the agency breakdown as a table
| Agency | Spending | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | $3.7B | 62.4% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $1.4B | 23.7% |
| Department of Education | $824.9M | 13.9% |
How Salt Lake County Ranks Nationally
Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties
All 3,232 US counties, FY2025
$7,965 Top 54% higher than 46% of 3,224 US counties
Each bar is a $1K-wide band; taller bars hold more US counties. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source USASpending.gov FY2025 + U.S. Census Bureau population estimates
Salt Lake County Among Utah's Largest Counties
Population vs. per-capita spending: Utah's biggest counties
Read the chart as a table
| County | Population | Per capita | Total spending |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake County (this county) | 1,185,238 | $7,965 | $9.4B |
| Utah County | 659,399 | $3,532 | $2.3B |
| Davis County | 362,679 | $8,306 | $3.0B |
| Weber County | 262,223 | $10,399 | $2.7B |
| Washington County | 180,279 | $7,679 | $1.4B |
| Cache County | 133,154 | $7,056 | $939.6M |
| Tooele County | 72,698 | $5,550 | $403.5M |
| Box Elder County | 57,666 | $6,246 | $360.2M |
| Iron County | 57,289 | $7,408 | $424.4M |
| Summit County | 42,357 | $7,024 | $297.5M |
| Uintah County | 35,620 | $5,442 | $193.8M |
| Wasatch County | 34,788 | $5,199 | $180.8M |
| Sanpete County | 28,437 | $6,185 | $175.9M |
| Sevier County | 21,522 | $8,733 | $188.0M |
| Carbon County | 20,412 | $7,595 | $155.0M |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Every figure on PlainSpending is computed directly from USASpending.gov award-transaction data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page aggregates every federal award with a place-of-performance in this county, live from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.