American Fork/Cedar Hills, UT has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 120 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 50,121 residents, American Fork/Cedar Hills is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against UT and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
American Fork/Cedar Hills, UT carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, American Fork/Cedar Hills, UT shows violent crime at 119.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,458.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 18.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 119.7 in 2024 (+559.8%). The highest observed value was 123.9 in 2023 and the lowest 18.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to American Fork/Cedar Hills's 119.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Bountiful (120.1), Harrisville (119.0), Naples (118.6), Price (120.9). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.6% of the 791 Part I offenses reported in American Fork/Cedar Hills for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Utah cities — a gap of 6.7 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Position in the state cohort
At 119.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, American Fork/Cedar Hills ranks 45 of 77 — above 32 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -15.7% against the cohort median of 141.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate American Fork/Cedar Hills's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
American Fork/Cedar Hills's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 791 offenses; mix index 6,540).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
American Fork/Cedar Hills offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 731 | 1458.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 635 | 1266.9 |
| Burglary | 52 | 103.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 44 | 87.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 60 | 119.7 |
| Rape | 28 | 55.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 23 | 45.9 |
| Robbery | 6 | 12 |
| Murder | 3 | 6 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 44,093 | 18.1 | 1390.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 44,725 | 80.5 | 1869.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 45,310 | 110.4 | 1783.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 49,228 | 123.9 | 1468.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 50,121 | 119.7 | 1458.5 |
American Fork/Cedar Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind American Fork/Cedar Hills's 791 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Utah cities closest to American Fork/Cedar Hills in population. Their populations run from 41,556 to 58,400, against 50,121 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
American Fork/Cedar Hills sits at 119.7/100K violent (grade A); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
American Fork/Cedar Hills at 119.7/100K violent and 1,458.5/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
119.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,458.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-3.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, American Fork/Cedar Hills reported 60 violent crimes and 731 property crimes, for a total of 791 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, American Fork/Cedar Hills's violent crime rate decreased by 3.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.7%.
The most common crime type in American Fork/Cedar Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.3% of all reported crimes (635 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: American Fork/Cedar Hills's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how American Fork/Cedar Hills's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 American Fork/Cedar Hills, UT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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