Salt Lake City, UT has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 864 per 100,000, 146% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 212,675 residents, Salt Lake City 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
Salt Lake City, UT carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 146% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Salt Lake City, UT shows violent crime at 864.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,200 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 146% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 864.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Salt Lake City ranks 1 of 77 — above 76 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +532.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Salt Lake City's 864.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are South Salt Lake (767.5), Moab (734.3), Brian Head (625.0), Ogden (505.4). 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 12,897 Part I offenses reported here are 28.5% of the 45,261 reported across all 77 comparable Utah cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 212,675 rather than as a uniform shift.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 939.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 864.2 in 2024 (-8.0%). The highest observed value was 995.2 in 2022 and the lowest 864.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Salt Lake 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.
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.
Across 110.9 Census sq mi, Salt Lake City logged 99.7 property and 16.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Salt Lake City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 12,897 offenses; mix index 4,992).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Salt Lake City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (110.9 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 | 11,059 | 5200 |
| Larceny-Theft | 8,900 | 4184.8 |
| Burglary | 1,172 | 551.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 987 | 464.1 |
| Arson | 46 | 21.6 |
| Violent Crime | 1,838 | 864.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,100 | 517.2 |
| Robbery | 390 | 183.4 |
| Rape | 337 | 158.5 |
| Murder | 11 | 5.2 |
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 | 202,187 | 939.7 | 7408 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 205,929 | 975.1 | 6880 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 201,373 | 995.2 | 6474.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 206,692 | 883 | 5702.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 212,675 | 864.2 | 5200 |
Salt Lake City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Salt Lake City's 12,897 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 Salt Lake City in population. Their populations run from 86,846 to 132,686, against 212,675 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Salt Lake City sits at 864.2/100K violent (grade F); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Salt Lake City at 864.2/100K violent and 5,200/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
864.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
5,200/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-2.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Salt Lake City reported 1,838 violent crimes and 11,059 property crimes, for a total of 12,897 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Salt Lake City's violent crime rate decreased by 2.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.8%.
The most common crime type in Salt Lake City is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.0% of all reported crimes (8,900 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Salt Lake City'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 Salt Lake City's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Salt Lake City, UT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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