West Valley, UT has a D safety grade (37/100) with a violent crime rate of 470 per 100,000, 33% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 132,686 residents, West Valley 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
West Valley, UT carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 33% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Valley, UT shows violent crime at 469.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,841.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 469.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Valley ranks 7 of 77 — above 70 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +243.6% 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 West Valley's 469.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Helper (470.4), Ogden (505.4), Park City (414.6), Riverdale (385.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.3% of the 3,067 Part I offenses reported in West Valley for 2024, against a median of 14.1% across comparable Utah cities — a gap of 6.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 528.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 469.5 in 2024 (-11.1%). The highest observed value was 543.4 in 2021 and the lowest 442.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate West Valley'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.
West Valley's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 3,067 offenses; mix index 4,098).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
West Valley offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 2,444 | 1841.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,867 | 1407.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 317 | 238.9 |
| Burglary | 260 | 196 |
| Arson | 6 | 4.5 |
| Violent Crime | 623 | 469.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 428 | 322.6 |
| Rape | 98 | 73.9 |
| Robbery | 88 | 66.3 |
| Murder | 9 | 6.8 |
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 | 135,887 | 528.4 | 3341.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 134,329 | 543.4 | 3105.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 138,020 | 442 | 2877.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 135,023 | 449.6 | 2164.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 132,686 | 469.5 | 1841.9 |
West Valley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Valley's 3,067 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 West Valley in population. Their populations run from 84,017 to 114,211, against 132,686 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West Valley sits at 469.5/100K violent (grade D); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
West Valley at 469.5/100K violent and 1,841.9/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
469.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,841.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+4.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, West Valley reported 623 violent crimes and 2,444 property crimes, for a total of 3,067 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Valley's violent crime rate increased by 4.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.9%.
The most common crime type in West Valley is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.9% of all reported crimes (1,867 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: West Valley'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 West Valley's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Valley, UT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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