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The city has large numbers of persons with Scottish and Scots-Irish ancestry.

However, the expansion of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area into Payson has changed the city's ethnic and religious makeup with additions of Catholic ( including Eastern Rite Catholic and Greek Catholic brought in by Greek, Italian and Yugoslav settlers ), Presbyterian, Evangelist, and Wiccan.

One of the largest and best-known Wiccan covens in Utah County can be found in Payson.

Payson, like Provo, has a predominantly Mormon population, but other religious sects and denominations such as Lutherans, Methodists, Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists.

The imprint of Scandinavian settlement is found in thousands of residents with Scandinavian ( i. e. Danish and Swedish ) surnames, as well thousands of Icelanders and Norwegians settled the Payson-Spanish Fork area in the 1850s ; Swiss people and Austrians ; and since the 1930s, Mexican Americans among a few other Hispanics and Latinos.