- Salt Lake City has issued nearly 400,000 parking tickets from 2019 to 2025.
- The tickets have totaled $15.2 million in penalties, with expired meters being the top offense.
- Downtown’s growth has increased parking demand and citations; the busiest ticket times were 10 a.m. to noon.
SALT LAKE CITY — In a city with a full-time population of close to 220,000, KSL-TV has learned compliance officers wrote nearly 400,000 parking tickets over a roughly six-year period from 2019 to 2025.
According to an analysis of a massive dataset obtained by KSL-TV, officers wrote 396,345 citations and warnings from Jan. 1, 2019, to June 13, 2025 — including 114,553 for expired meters, and another 46,215 for parking longer than allowed.
Expired registrations and license plate issues accounted for another 44,333 tickets, and the data revealed all the tickets amounted to nearly $15.2 million in assessed penalties…