WEST HAVEN — West Haven’s population keeps on surging.

Growth in the city between 2020 and 2021 topped that of Weber County’s 14 other incorporated locales by a wide margin, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday. In fact, West Haven registered the second-fastest growth rate of all Utah locales in the period, trailing only much smaller Hideout, a Wasatch County town.

Utah as a whole, meanwhile, led the nation in growth in housing units from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021, going from 1,158,408 units to 1,190,107, up 2.7%

Here’s a look at the numbers:

• West Haven’s population totaled an estimated 19,880 as of July 1, 2021, according to the new U.S. Census Bureau figures, up from 17,233 as of July 1, 2020, an increase of 2,647 or 15.4%. It’s regularly counted among the county’s fastest-growing cities and, according to the new numbers, West Haven edged past South Ogden as the fourth most populous city in Weber County.
• The 2,647 additions to West Haven represent 68.2% of the 3,881 new residents in all in Weber County’s 15 cities in the one-year span, underscoring the rapid growth.
• Numerically, North Ogden registered the second-largest increase, going from 21,088 to 21,528, up 440 or 2.1%. Next was Plain City, where the population went from 7,194 to 8,147, up 233 or 2.94%, the second-largest percentage hike in Weber County.
• The population in Ogden, Weber County’s largest city, went from 86,726 to 86,798, up 72 or 0.1%. The population in four Weber County cities fell — Riverdale, Uintah, Roy and Harrisville.
• Across the state, the fastest growing locales, in percent terms, were Hideout, from 969 to 1,152 residents, up 18.9%; West Haven, up 15.4%; Saratoga Springs, from 38,357 to 44,164, up 15.1%; Eagle Mountain, from 44,733 to 49,738, up 11.2%; and Rocky Ridge, from 847 to 938, up 10.7%.

In Davis County, West Point and Syracuse — containing some of the largest expanses of open, readily developable land in the county — experienced the highest growth rates. West Point grew from 11,042 residents to 11,430, up 3.5% while Syracuse grew from 32,338 to 33,331, up 3.1%.

Layton, Davis County’s largest city, saw the largest numeric increase, from 81,967 to 83,291, up 1,324 or 1.6%.

Salt Lake City, the largest locale in Utah, went from 199,587 residents to 200,478, up 891 or 0.5%.

Nationally, cities of the West and South led the way in growth, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Eight of the 15 fastest-growing locales with at least 50,000 people, using percent change as the gauge, were in the West while seven were in the South. Five of the 15 cities were in Arizona and none were in Utah.

The South and West also contained the top 15 cities with the largest numeric gains — 11 in the South and four in the West.

Trailing Utah in housing growth in the one-year period were Idaho, which experienced an uptick of 2.5%, and Texas, up 2%.

Here’s the growth rate in housing in Utah’s most populated counties: Salt Lake County, from 430,658 units to 440,493, up 2.3%; Utah County, from 194,247 units to 201,906, up 3.9%; Davis County, from 115,638 units to 118,003, up 2.1%; Weber County, from 96,038 units to 98,399, up 2.5%; and Washington County, from 75,401 units to 78,974, up 4.7%.

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