Layton's Population soared after WW2

                             (Photo from Heritage Museum of Layton's Collection.)

LAYTON City hasn’t always been Davis County’s largest population center. Before World War II, it was just a sleepy, small farming community
of 646 residents.
Now, it exceeds 72,000 in total population and could overtake Ogden, in the decades ahead, as the largest city north of Salt Lake City.
Layton City has now reached about 70 percent of “buildout" (its maximum estimated population).

Layton’s population history:
1850: 61*
1860: 155*
1870: 313*
1900: 500*
1930: 597
1940: 646
1950: 3,456
1960: 9,027
1970: 13,603
1980: 22,862
1985: 36,000*
1990: 41,784
2000: 58,474
2010: 67,371
2012: 70,000*
2013: 72,515*
2016: 74,660* *Estimated

SOURCES: Deseret News Archives, U.S. Census, 2013 and 2016 Annual Report for Layton City.