The Finding
Of the 14 research reports released in 2025, there were a lot of key findings. The Utah Foundation’s Board of Directors selected the top 10. In 5th place:
“Utah has a remarkably strong middle class. As of 2023, Utah’s middle class remained ahead of every other state.”
The Details
The Utah Foundation’s Social Capital Index project is a series of reports that measure whether Utah is thriving in terms of its “social capital.” Put simply, social capital refers to the ways in which individuals can leverage connections between people and social networks for the benefit of themselves or their community.
One of the seven categories of the project is social cohesion, which the Utah Foundation defines as the foundational commonalities that allow a population to function effectively as a group and open the way for individuals to participate in that whole.
The project aims to measure social cohesion by analyzing four indicators that researchers can revisit consistently over time:
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- Middle-class strength
- Limited English language proficiency among children
- Limited English language proficiency among adults
- Population born in-state
Utah performs okay on the latter three, but tops the nation with its share of the population in the middle class.
The Background
Read more about this finding in its full report here.
And learn more about social capital here.
And here is the full Social Capital Index series.
Coming Up
Learn about the other nine top findings from 2025 in our Significant Statistics blog posts.
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