City · Millard County, Utah

Delta, Utah

Delta is a city in Millard County, Utah. It has 3,705 residents. Delta, Utah has a quality-of-life score of 59 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,440 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Utah it ranks #129 of 175 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low) and grocery stores (high). It ranks worst on social associations (low), drought exposure (high) and traffic deaths (high).

59Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,440 of 15,651 cities and towns
Utah: #129 of 175 in UT
Population: 3,705 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 429.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4918910

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety33#10,489/15,637
Economy53#7,402/15,631
Housing79#3,150/14,977
Health45#8,632/15,609
Healthcare59#6,470/15,650
Environment76#3,697/15,453
Education65#5,461/15,649
Infrastructure52#7,526/15,650
Community53#7,280/15,651
Leisure & amenities33#10,552/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Delta, Utah ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Millard County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.327
98/100Utah 0.427United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.4 µg/m³
94/100Utah 7.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMillard County value
Grocery stores · high2.8 /10k
93/100Utah 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMillard County value
Average commute time · low15.7 min
93/100Utah 22.1 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Public EV charging ports · high17.1 /10k
92/100Utah 9.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyMillard County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Utah 3.7United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMillard County value

Weaknesses

Social associations · low0.0 /10k
0/100Utah 3.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMillard County value
Drought exposure · high100%
1/100Utah 98%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAMillard County value
Traffic deaths · high56.5 /100k
1/100Utah 8.7 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataMillard County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Utah 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMillard County value
Comfortable days · low22.5%
5/100Utah 24.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMillard County value
Students per teacher · high19.6×
8/100Utah 21.6×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsMillard County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateImproving
35.4% (2015-2019) → 5.9% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.1% (2015-2019) → 87.4% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
22.5% (2015-2019) → 9.8% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.4× (2015-2019) → 3.5× (2020-2024)
+42%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
High school diploma or higherImproving
84.9% (2015-2019) → 92.9% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Average commute timeWorsening
11.7 min (2015-2019) → 15.7 min (2020-2024)
+35%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Delta, Utah improved on 4 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved4

Poverty−13 points22.5% → 9.8%
Inequality−0.1000.427 → 0.327
Broadband+15 points72.1% → 87.4%
Household income+33%$59,200 → $78,506

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Delta, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	11.7 min2015-2019	15.7 min2020-2024	+4.0 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.3%2015-2019	25.1%2020-2024	+5.8 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Broadband subscriptions	72.1%2015-2019	87.4%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Effective property tax rate	0.68%2015-2019	0.59%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%
High school diploma or higher	84.9%2015-2019	92.9%2020-2024	+7.9 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+1.0×	Within the margin of error	21%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4272015-2019	0.3272020-2024	−0.100	Improved	96%
Median household income	$59,2002015-2019	$78,5062020-2024	+33%	Improved	61%
Poverty rate	22.5%2015-2019	9.8%2020-2024	−13 points	Improved	96%
Rent-burdened households	45.5%2015-2019	41.6%2020-2024	−3.9 points	Within the margin of error	69%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.8%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	59%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Delta, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Delta, Utah in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Delta, Utah itself moved +9.8 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

3,705 residents (±15)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,218 households (±106)

Delta, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k15%†187
$25k–50k16%†192
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,218 households (±106)

Delta, Utah
Utah share

Own81%989
Rent19%†229

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+19.4 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,559 workers (±167)

Delta, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone74%1,161
Carpool14%†219
Public transit0.0%0

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Millard County, the county holding most of Delta's residents.

Millard County has 301 employer establishments, 220 for every 10,000 residents (0.89× the US rate of 248; 0.80× Utah's), with 3,516 paid employees at an average annual pay of $56,618. The Census Bureau also counts 1,027 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 301; 1,027 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 220; US 248 · Utah 277
Paid employees: 3,516
Average annual pay: $56,618; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Millard County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	28	20.5	1.32×More than typical	114	$35,904	77
Restaurants and other eating places	21	15.4	0.84×About typical	253	$18,217	6
Ambulatory health care services	16	11.7	0.56×Fewer than typical	92	$51,109	35
Gasoline stations	16	11.7	3.61×More than typical	246	$30,085	—
Truck transportation	15	11	2.17×More than typical	43	$48,000	33
Limited-service restaurants	14	10.2	1.28×More than typical	207	$18,836	—
Construction of buildings	11	8.1	1.06×About typical	42	$34,071	39
Building equipment contractors	10	7.3	1.22×About typical	21	$51,286	15
Food manufacturing	8	5.9	6.33×Too few to compare	461	$55,358	4
Automotive repair and maintenance	7	5.1	1.02×Too few to compare	45	$40,222	21
Banks and credit unions	7	5.1	1.59×Too few to compare	40	$41,700	—
Offices of dentists	7	5.1	1.27×Too few to compare	42	$29,000	—

Rank places for an industry Open Millard County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 13,661 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $35.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Delta, Utah: $9.51 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $35.2K; −64% vs FY2025
Per resident: $9.51; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 100%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Bureau of Land Management$35.5K100%
Agricultural Marketing Service$8732.5%

Top recipients

G & R LIVESTOCK INC$31.6K90%
GOVAERA INC$2,0045.7%
GUNNISON BEND VETERINARY SERVICES, LLC$1,0443.0%
MYERS KIRTT$9212.6%
CAL-MAINE FOODS, INC$8732.5%

Spending by fiscal year

7.1KFY2017
8.6KFY2018
2.5KFY2019
51.3KFY2020
78.6KFY2021
86.4KFY2022
80.5KFY2023
97.7KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Support activities for animal production · 1152$32.5K92%
Other crop farming · 1119$2,0045.7%
Other professional, scientific, and technical services · 5419$1,0443.0%
Other food manufacturing · 3119$8732.5%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Delta, Utah, so they do not add up across cities.

Delta, Utah's figures are part of those of Millard County, UT ($1.7M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Delta is mostly in Millard County.

See federal money in Millard County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Delta, Utah is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Celeste MaloyR-UT-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 96%Missed 0.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Millard County70100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Millard County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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