South Salt Lake, UT has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 768 per 100,000, 118% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
South Salt Lake (25,930 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
South Salt Lake, UT carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 118% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, South Salt Lake, UT shows violent crime at 767.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,873.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 118% 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 767.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, South Salt Lake ranks 2 of 77 — above 75 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +461.6% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to South Salt Lake's 767.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Moab (734.3), Salt Lake City (864.2), 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 968.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 767.5 in 2024 (-20.7%). The highest observed value was 1026.7 in 2021 and the lowest 614.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate South Salt Lake'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 6.9 Census sq mi, South Salt Lake logged 219.4 property and 28.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
South Salt Lake's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 1,722 offenses; mix index 5,160).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
South Salt Lake offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.9 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 | 1,523 | 5873.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,210 | 4666.4 |
| Burglary | 161 | 620.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 152 | 586.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.9 |
| Violent Crime | 199 | 767.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 117 | 451.2 |
| Rape | 41 | 158.1 |
| Robbery | 39 | 150.4 |
| Murder | 2 | 7.7 |
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 | 25,816 | 968.4 | 9246.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 25,422 | 1026.7 | 7627.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 26,021 | 614.9 | 5495.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 25,658 | 643.1 | 5511 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 25,930 | 767.5 | 5873.5 |
South Salt Lake Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind South Salt Lake's 1,722 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 South Salt Lake in population. Their populations run from 20,580 to 30,812, against 25,930 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
South Salt Lake sits at 767.5/100K violent (grade F); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
South Salt Lake at 767.5/100K violent and 5,873.5/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
767.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
5,873.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+19.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, South Salt Lake reported 199 violent crimes and 1,523 property crimes, for a total of 1,722 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, South Salt Lake's violent crime rate increased by 19.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 6.6%.
The most common crime type in South Salt Lake is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.3% of all reported crimes (1,210 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: South Salt Lake 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 South Salt Lake's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 South Salt Lake, 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. South Salt Lake is scored in the mid-size municipal band (25,930 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.