TIA ranks Utah among the top five states for its government finances.  For the last 14 years, it has maintained a taxpayer surplus according to our analysis.  You can read the report here. 

But Utah ranks high in many other metrics as well.  For example, it has the highest percentage of married couple households, the highest percentage of population between the ages of 1-19, and the third highest in real median household income. It also has the lowest median age of all 50 states and the second-lowest percentage of children in poverty.  To find out how Utah fares on many other demographic, economic and state financial metrics go to Data-Z.org.  You can also learn about the other states and how they compare.