Utah ranks third among states with the least amount of poverty. But disparity among its counties and its school districts is vast, new U.S. Census Bureau data show.
For example, more than one of every five people in San Juan County — home of the Navajo reservation — lives in poverty. That is five times the rate of high-income Morgan County.
For example, Jordan School District in the fast-growing and increasingly wealthy southwest corner of Salt Lake County has a student poverty rate of just 5.3%. But in the Salt Lake City School District, where minorities outnumber whites with many recent immigrants, the rate is nearly three times higher at 14.