Woods Cross, UT has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 113 per 100,000, 68% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Woods Cross (11,482 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
Woods Cross, UT carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 68% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Woods Cross, UT shows violent crime at 113.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,367.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Woods Cross reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,482. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 326.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 113.2 in 2024 (-65.4%). The highest observed value was 326.9 in 2020 and the lowest 60.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Woods Cross's 113.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Tremonton Garland (112.1), South Jordan (115.1), Herriman (117.3), Naples (118.6). 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 113.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Woods Cross ranks 50 of 77 — above 27 of the 76 other Utah cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -20.2% against the cohort median of 141.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.2% of reported property offenses in Woods Cross, against a cohort median of 81.7%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (21). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.6% of the 170 Part I offenses reported in Woods Cross for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Utah cities — a gap of 6.6 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 counts dominate Woods Cross'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 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,482. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 3.8 Census sq mi, Woods Cross logged 40.9 property and 3.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Woods Cross's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 170 offenses; mix index 4,292).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Woods Cross offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 157 | 1367.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 104 | 905.8 |
| Burglary | 32 | 278.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 21 | 182.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 113.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 95.8 |
| Rape | 1 | 8.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 8.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 11,625 | 326.9 | 2228 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,870 | 202.2 | 1845 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,846 | 152 | 1831.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,493 | 60.9 | 1427 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,482 | 113.2 | 1367.4 |
Woods Cross Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Woods Cross's 170 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 Woods Cross in population. Their populations run from 8,306 to 14,584, against 11,482 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Woods Cross sits at 113.2/100K violent (grade A); the Utah cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Woods Cross at 113.2/100K violent and 1,367.4/100K property - matched below outside Utah (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
113.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,367.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Woods Cross reported 13 violent crimes and 157 property crimes, for a total of 170 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Woods Cross's violent crime rate increased by 85.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.2%.
The most common crime type in Woods Cross is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.2% of all reported crimes (104 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Woods Cross 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 Woods Cross's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Woods Cross, UT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Woods Cross is scored in the mid-size municipal band (11,482 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.