Mount Pleasant, UT is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Pleasant, UT shows violent crime at 253.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 405.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
253.7/100K violent
405.9/100K property
-28% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mount Pleasant, UT
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Mount Pleasant reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,942. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 38.5% of the 26 Part I offenses reported in Mount Pleasant for 2024, against a median of 14.1% across comparable Utah cities — a gap of 24.3 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.
Comparable rate records
Mount Pleasant's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Utah cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Pleasant's 253.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hildale (236.2), Murray (278.2), Vernal (279.9), Grantsville (283.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Mount Pleasant reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Utah cities
At 253.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Pleasant ranks 20 of 77 — above 57 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +85.6% 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 62.5% of reported property offenses in Mount Pleasant, against a cohort median of 81.7%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Mount Pleasant'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,942. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Mount Pleasant's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.9 Census sq mi, Mount Pleasant logged 5.5 property and 3.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Pleasant leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,722.
Violent offenses are 38% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property offenses lead Mount Pleasant's 2024 record
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Mount Pleasant: 254 violent, 406 property per 100,000 (grade B)
La Verkin: 22 violent, 2037 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Moab: 734 violent, 1121 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Sunset: 376 violent, 1146 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Naples: 119 violent, 870 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Kanab: 18 violent, 663 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Willard: 209 violent, 628 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Helper: 470 violent, 941 property per 100,000 (grade C)
West Bountiful: 120 violent, 1441 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Similar-Size Cities in Utah
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In 2024, Mount Pleasant reported 10 violent crimes and 16 property crimes, for a total of 26 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Mount Pleasant?
The most common crime type in Mount Pleasant is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.5% of all reported crimes (10 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Mount Pleasant is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Pleasant, UT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.