Centerville, UT has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 79 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Centerville (16,398 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
Centerville, UT carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Centerville, UT shows violent crime at 79.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,433.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% 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.
Small-count caution
Centerville reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 16,398. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Centerville's 79.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pleasant View (79.5), North Park (78.7), Enoch (81.0), Santa Clara/Ivins (77.4). 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 145.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 79.3 in 2024 (-45.6%). The highest observed value was 174.5 in 2021 and the lowest 79.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 79.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Centerville ranks 62 of 77 — above 15 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -44.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 5.2% of the 248 Part I offenses reported in Centerville for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Utah cities — a gap of 9.0 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.
Property counts dominate Centerville'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.
Based on 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 16,398. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 5.9 Census sq mi, Centerville logged 39.7 property and 2.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Centerville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 248 offenses; mix index 7,109).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Centerville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.9 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 | 235 | 1433.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 208 | 1268.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 85.4 |
| Burglary | 13 | 79.3 |
| Arson | 2 | 12.2 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 79.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9 | 54.9 |
| Rape | 3 | 18.3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 6.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 17,855 | 145.6 | 2268.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,765 | 174.5 | 2206.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,719 | 155.5 | 1878.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,316 | 116.5 | 1372.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 16,398 | 79.3 | 1433.1 |
Centerville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Centerville's 248 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 Centerville in population. Their populations run from 14,584 to 19,369, against 16,398 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Centerville sits at 79.3/100K violent (grade A); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Centerville at 79.3/100K violent and 1,433.1/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
79.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,433.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Centerville reported 13 violent crimes and 235 property crimes, for a total of 248 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Centerville's violent crime rate decreased by 31.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.4%.
The most common crime type in Centerville is larceny-theft, accounting for 83.9% of all reported crimes (208 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Centerville 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 Centerville's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Centerville, UT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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