All Counties in Utah, Eviction Risk 2026
29 counties covering 333 incorporated cities and 3,260,435 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 2.1/10 (Very Low), but county-level scores vary sharply, urban counties with strong tenant protections or high rent burdens routinely score several points above rural counties.
| County↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | Lean↕ | Renters↕ | % income on rent↕ | Avg rent↕ | Poverty↕ | Cities↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | San Juan County | 7,382 | 2.4 | Rep | 19.8% | 22.1% | $915 | 31.7% | 10 |
| 02 | Salt Lake County | 1.19M | 2.2 | Dem | 28.0% | 27.5% | $1,703 | 8.5% | 28 |
| 03 | Millard County | 7,236 | 2.2 | Rep | 29.5% | 29.7% | $963 | 10.0% | 3 |
| 04 | Kane County | 7,905 | 2.2 | Rep | 20.2% | 32.0% | $955 | 15.6% | 9 |
| 05 | Piute County | 2,696 | 2.2 | Rep | 8.1% | 20.6% | $928 | 11.1% | 7 |
| 06 | Carbon County | 18,148 | 2.2 | Rep | 38.9% | 32.1% | $928 | 18.0% | 9 |
| 07 | Sanpete County | 26,446 | 2.1 | Rep | 19.5% | 27.3% | $967 | 13.7% | 17 |
| 08 | Garfield County | 3,583 | 2.1 | Rep | 35.7% | 23.6% | $1,123 | 31.6% | 5 |
| 09 | Daggett County | 423 | 2.1 | Rep | 31.3% | 22.2% | $979 | 24.0% | 3 |
| 10 | Grand County | 6,832 | 2.1 | Dem | 24.8% | 31.5% | $969 | 17.1% | 5 |
| 11 | Uintah County | 20,682 | 2.1 | Rep | 26.8% | 25.6% | $1,011 | 22.2% | 9 |
| 12 | Duchesne County | 10,839 | 2.1 | Rep | 26.8% | 24.0% | $1,104 | 12.9% | 8 |
| 13 | Tooele County | 70,464 | 2.1 | Rep | 32.3% | 19.1% | $1,210 | 9.2% | 7 |
| 14 | Utah County | 700,012 | 2.1 | Rep | 22.9% | 27.7% | $1,634 | 8.6% | 33 |
| 15 | Davis County | 368,627 | 2.1 | Rep | 18.7% | 29.3% | $1,671 | 5.6% | 15 |
| 16 | Washington County | 192,077 | 2.0 | Rep | 21.5% | 28.8% | $1,534 | 11.4% | 20 |
| 17 | Weber County | 261,037 | 2.0 | Rep | 18.3% | 26.3% | $1,569 | 5.4% | 20 |
| 18 | Summit County | 34,897 | 2.0 | Dem | 17.2% | 21.2% | $2,290 | 6.5% | 11 |
| 19 | Beaver County | 6,101 | 2.0 | Rep | 18.4% | 20.0% | $1,000 | 7.1% | 3 |
| 20 | Wasatch County | 30,763 | 2.0 | Rep | 15.5% | 29.2% | $2,036 | 6.6% | 12 |
| 21 | Box Elder County | 42,101 | 2.0 | Rep | 19.3% | 25.5% | $1,289 | 8.3% | 8 |
| 22 | Juab County | 10,642 | 2.0 | Rep | 19.5% | 24.1% | $1,045 | 13.2% | 9 |
| 23 | Iron County | 51,485 | 2.0 | Rep | 21.2% | 31.6% | $1,105 | 10.2% | 11 |
| 24 | Cache County | 144,453 | 1.9 | Rep | 19.6% | 25.5% | $1,231 | 8.0% | 33 |
| 25 | Sevier County | 20,272 | 1.9 | Rep | 17.0% | 25.4% | $852 | 10.3% | 16 |
| 26 | Emery County | 8,259 | 1.9 | Rep | 20.0% | 24.1% | $743 | 12.9% | 8 |
| 27 | Morgan County | 10,514 | 1.9 | Rep | 31.2% | 23.2% | $1,808 | 3.8% | 5 |
| 28 | Rich County | 2,162 | 1.7 | Rep | 16.1% | 17.2% | $695 | 21.2% | 5 |
| 29 | Wayne County | 1,009 | 1.7 | Rep | 22.6% | 17.2% | $974 | 9.6% | 4 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Utah
Utah's 29 counties span eviction-risk scores from 1.7 in Wayne County to 2.4 in San Juan County , a 0.6-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 2.1/10 (Very Low), but that single figure hides far more than it reveals, the table above scores every county on the same 1–10 scale so you can see exactly where landlord exposure concentrates.
The counties carrying the most eviction risk, San Juan County, Salt Lake County, Millard County, are Utah's denser, higher-cost markets. In Carbon County, renters spend an average of 32% of household income on rent, and 39% of its homes are renter-occupied, the cost pressure that pushes filings up and pulls tenant-protection ordinances into local politics. Larger metros also concentrate the legal-aid networks and renter-organizing capacity that lift a county's score above the rural baseline.
At the other end of the table, Wayne County, Rich County, Morgan County score lowest. These tend to be smaller, more rural counties where homeownership is the norm, rent-to-income ratios run lower, and local rent-control or just-cause ordinances are rare or state-preempted. Evictions still happen there, but the structural pressure that drives a high score (heavy rent burden, a large renter majority, organized tenant advocacy) is simply weaker.
Each county score is a population-weighted aggregate of every city scored inside it, so a county with one expensive urban core and a dozen quiet suburbs lands somewhere in between. Click any county row to drill into its cities ranked one by one, a zoomed heat map, and a full breakdown of rent burden, renter share, poverty rate, and political margin. For the statutes that apply statewide regardless of county, notice periods, security-deposit caps, just-cause and rent-control rules, see the Utah state overview.