Census: Utah grows faster than 47 states

Census figures released Tuesday showing Utah's population jumped more than half a million over the last decade. For the Utah Population Estimates Committee, Tuesday's release of state population data equates to a once-a-decade performance evaluation because it's when the committee finds out how accurate its annual estimates of the state's population have been since the previous Census. UPEC estimated Utah's 2010 population would be at 2.83 million, approximately 65,000 people more than that the official number of 2,763,885 the Census reported. Deseret News

Note: for more information about the recently released 2010 Census counts, go to: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/