Perry, UT is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 16% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Perry, UT shows violent crime at 297.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,205.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% 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
297.2/100K violent
1205.2/100K property
-16% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Perry, UT
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Perry reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,057. 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
Perry's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Utah cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Perry's 297.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Jordan (294.2), Grantsville (283.7), Richfield (313.0), Vernal (279.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Perry reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Utah cities
At 297.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Perry ranks 15 of 77 — above 62 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +117.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 243.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 297.2 in 2024 (+22.0%). The highest observed value was 297.2 in 2024 and the lowest 50.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 19.8% of the 91 Part I offenses reported in Perry for 2024, against a median of 14.1% across comparable Utah cities — a gap of 5.6 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 91.8% of reported property offenses in Perry, against a cohort median of 81.5%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Perry'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 18 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,057. 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.
Perry's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8 Census sq mi, Perry logged 9.1 property and 2.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Perry's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 91 offenses; mix index 5,656).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8 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 rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-31.7%
1763.8 → 1205.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+10.6%
268.8 → 297.2/100K
Property offenses lead Perry's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
73
1205.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
67
1106.2
-
Burglary
6
99.1
-
Arson
1
16.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Violent Crime
18
297.2
352
Rape
11
181.6
-
Aggravated Assault
6
99.1
-
Robbery
1
16.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Perry Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Perry property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Perry: 297 violent, 1205 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Ephraim: 0 violent, 573 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
West Bountiful: 120 violent, 1441 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Kanab: 18 violent, 663 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Harrisville: 119 violent, 2364 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Sunset: 376 violent, 1146 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Moab: 734 violent, 1121 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Nephi: 136 violent, 734 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Roosevelt: 190 violent, 1493 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Perry Police Department
Reporting agency for Perry NIBRS-participating
Perry Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Perry's 91 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Utah
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Utah cities closest to Perry in population. Their populations run from 5,175 to 7,370, against 6,057 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Perry reported 18 violent crimes and 73 property crimes, for a total of 91 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Perry?
From 2023 to 2024, Perry's violent crime rate increased by 10.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.7%.
What is the most common crime in Perry?
The most common crime type in Perry is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.6% of all reported crimes (67 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Perry 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.