As the government shutdown continues, a report by SmartAsset estimates 28,475 Utah residents have been furloughed. It makes Utah the ninth-highest state in the country by percentage of population — with that number leaving just over 0.81 percent of the state’s employment base out of work.
Nationally, nearly 20 percent of Washington, D.C., residents are impacted. In Maryland, over 100,000 residents are furloughed. Utah is listed with a population of 3,503,613 in the study.
SmartAsset ranked 50 states based on the estimated per-capita furloughs due to the current federal government shutdown. Data for federal employment comes from the FedScope Employment Summary Data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for March 2025. Departments with at least 1,000 listed employees at that time were considered.
Furlough rate estimates for each department were derived from publicly available funding contingency plans — or, in the case of the Government Printing Office, based on the most recent historical precedent in the 2013 shutdown. Population estimates come from the U.S. Census Bureau 1-Year American Community Survey for 2024.