A town of 37,696, settled in 1942. Nearly 3% of it is conserved land.
The 3 things Kearns does most differently from other towns.
Where Kearns’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
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Ordered by what stands out in Kearns. Another town gets a different order.
4.6 miles of trails across 12 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Oquirrh Park | 2.3 mi | 106 |
| 2. Lodestone Park | 0.4 mi | 8 |
| 3. Mountain Man Park | 0.3 mi | 5 |
The typical Kearns home is worth about $437,000, down 0.6% in a year, 18% below the Utah typical home.
Kearns beats the Utah average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 20.
| What stands out | Kearns | UT |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.4% | 7.2% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 19.8% | 21.7% |
| More uninsured adults | 20.2% | 10.5% |
Most working residents leave Kearns for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Salt Lake City (29%), West Valley City (12%) and West Jordan (7%). Half commute less than 8 miles.
The public schools Kearns’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 73% of Utah’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
| School | Grades | Students | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Kearns School | PK–6 | 548 | D |
| South Kearns School | PK–6 | 536 | C− |
| Beehive School | PK–6 | 489 | D |
| David Gourley School | PK–6 | 423 | D |
| Thomas W. Bacchus School | K–6 | 315 | D |
| St. Francis Xavier Catholic School Private | PK–8 | 218 |
Kearns has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers, with very little rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 91°, a January night drops to 23°, and about 56 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 51% of U.S. communities.
2 postcards, papers and photographs from public archives.
City in Utah, United States
Kearns ( kurnz) is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Named after Utah's U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, it had a population of 36,723 at the 2020 Census. This was a 2.8 percent increase over the 2010 figure of 35,731. Kearns is home to the Utah Olympic Oval, an indoor speed skating oval built for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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3 towns share a border with Kearns.