Utah County is among the nation’s leaders for creating new jobs over the past year — ranking No. 6 among the country’s 349 largest counties, according to federal data released Wednesday.
The number of jobs there, where Silicon Slopes is fueling more high-tech jobs, jumped by 4.8 percent between June 2017 and June 2018, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That was more than three times more than the national average job growth of 1.5 percent.
The top large county in the nation for employment growth was Midland County, Texas — an oil production area — at 11.