Vernal, UT has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 280 per 100,000, 20% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Vernal (10,718 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
Vernal, UT carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 20% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Vernal, UT shows violent crime at 279.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,041.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Vernal's 279.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Murray (278.2), Grantsville (283.7), West Jordan (294.2), Perry (297.2). 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
At 279.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Vernal ranks 18 of 77 — above 59 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +104.8% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 339.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 279.9 in 2024 (-17.5%). The highest observed value was 549.8 in 2022 and the lowest 216.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 8.4% of the 356 Part I offenses reported in Vernal for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Utah cities — a gap of 5.8 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 Vernal'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 4.6 Census sq mi, Vernal logged 70.5 property and 6.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Vernal's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 356 offenses; mix index 6,636).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Vernal offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.6 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 | 326 | 3041.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 288 | 2687.1 |
| Burglary | 20 | 186.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 18 | 167.9 |
| Arson | 3 | 28 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 279.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 177.3 |
| Rape | 8 | 74.6 |
| Robbery | 2 | 18.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 9.3 |
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 | 10,606 | 339.4 | 3064.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,623 | 216.5 | 2174.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,368 | 549.8 | 3559 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,608 | 245.1 | 1178.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,718 | 279.9 | 3041.6 |
Vernal Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Vernal's 356 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 Vernal in population. Their populations run from 8,271 to 11,819, against 10,718 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Vernal sits at 279.9/100K violent (grade C); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Vernal at 279.9/100K violent and 3,041.6/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
279.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,041.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Vernal reported 30 violent crimes and 326 property crimes, for a total of 356 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Vernal's violent crime rate increased by 14.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 158.1%.
The most common crime type in Vernal is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.9% of all reported crimes (288 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Vernal 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 Vernal's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Vernal, 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. Vernal is scored in the mid-size municipal band (10,718 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.