Highland

Homesteaders settled the area in the 1870s. Scottish Mormon immigrants gave the community its name because they felt the land resembled the Scottish Highlands.

Highland was incorporated as a city on July 13, 1977.

Highland is in Utah County, which was created on January 31, 1850, and organized on April 18, 1852. The county seat is Provo. The county covers 2,144 square miles, including 141 square miles of water, and had 659,399 people at the 2020 census.

Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University are the county's two largest universities. Interstate 15 is the main north-south route through Utah County.

The census counted 8,172 people in 2000 and 15,523 in 2010. In 2020 the count was 19,348, an increase of 24.6 percent over 2010. The density was 2,238 people per square mile.

The 2020 census found a median age of 26.9. There were 4,627 households, and 84.0 percent were married-couple households. The city had 4,761 housing units, with 2.8 percent vacant. About 99.9 percent of residents lived in urban areas.

In 2020, 91.2 percent of residents were White, 5.7 percent reported two or more races, and 4.4 percent were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In 2000 the census counted 8,172 residents, so the 2020 population is more than double that figure.

The 2020 count of 19,348 compares with 15,523 in 2010. The city had 4,761 housing units in 2020, and only 2.8 percent of them were vacant.

Highland's public schools are part of the Alpine School District. Lone Peak High School and Mountain Ridge Junior High are in Highland, and they also serve students from neighboring Cedar Hills.

Highland is mostly a residential community and sits close to Interstate 15 communities such as Lehi and American Fork.