Cedar City, UT has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 147 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Cedar City (41,556 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then UT and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Cedar City, UT carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cedar City, UT shows violent crime at 146.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,013.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cedar City's 146.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are South Ogden (146.6), Washington (150.7), Logan (137.3), Nephi (136.0). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 183.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 146.8 in 2024 (-19.9%). The highest observed value was 183.2 in 2020 and the lowest 76.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 146.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cedar City ranks 37 of 77 — above 40 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +7.4% against the cohort median of 136.6. 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 Cedar City'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 36.2 Census sq mi, Cedar City logged 11.6 property and 1.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cedar City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 482 offenses; mix index 5,280).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Cedar City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (36.2 sq mi); 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 | 421 | 1013.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 343 | 825.4 |
| Burglary | 44 | 105.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 34 | 81.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 61 | 146.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 40 | 96.3 |
| Rape | 18 | 43.3 |
| Robbery | 2 | 4.8 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.4 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 35,486 | 183.2 | 1521.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 36,903 | 130.1 | 1105.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 39,266 | 76.4 | 1331.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 40,418 | 168.2 | 1511.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 41,556 | 146.8 | 1013.1 |
Cedar City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cedar City's 482 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 Cedar City in population. Their populations run from 35,521 to 46,536, against 41,556 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cedar City sits at 146.8/100K violent (grade A); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Cedar City at 146.8/100K violent and 1,013.1/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
146.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,013.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-12.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Cedar City reported 61 violent crimes and 421 property crimes, for a total of 482 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cedar City's violent crime rate decreased by 12.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33%.
The most common crime type in Cedar City is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.2% of all reported crimes (343 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Cedar City figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Cedar City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cedar City, UT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Cedar City is scored in the mid-size municipal band (41,556 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.