[2] The Price, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Carbon County.

The Utah Territory Legislature was petitioned to split off the north part, and thus it established Carbon County effective March 8, 1894.

The lower central part of Carbon County is a continuation of Castle Valley in Emery County, but in Carbon, the valley is ringed with mountains - the Wasatch Range to the west and northwest, and the Book Cliffs to the north and northeast.

54.50% were married couples living together, 10.65% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.97% were non-families.

25.50% of all households were made up of individuals (one person), and 11.07% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

As of 2015 the largest self-reported ancestry groups in Carbon County, Utah are:[17] Carbon County historically was the base of Democratic Party support in strongly Republican Utah with its sizable unionized mining population.

In 2012, the county's Democratic vote fell further as Mitt Romney carried 67.3% to 30.1% for Obama.

In 2016, despite Utah's strong swing against the Republicans due to the presence of conservative independent Evan McMullin, Carbon County was the only county in the state to swing more Republican, as Donald Trump won 66% to Hillary Clinton's 21.5% percent.

It is also the location of the charter Pinnacle Canyon Academy, which serves grades K-12, as well as the Castle Valley Center for disabled children.

Price is the location of Utah State University Eastern, which has an enrollment of approximately 1,525.