State crime profile · 2024

Utah Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

Crime data for 77 cities and 23 of 29 counties in Utah (UT), ranked safest to most dangerous from 143 reporting agencies.

Data updated 2026-09-05

229.2
Violent / 100K
1,435.1
Property / 100K
77
Cities
23
Counties

Utah violent crime is 229.2 per 100,000, 35% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Utah records 229.2 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 35% below the national average (about the 13th-safest of 51 states and D.C.). Statewide averages hide city and county variation; UCR participation is voluntary.

  • 229.2 violent crimes per 100K
  • -35% vs. the U.S. average
  • 13th safest of 51 states & DC
  • 1,435.1 property crimes per 100K

How safe is Utah? FBI UCR data snapshot

Utah (UT) reported 8,030 violent crimes and 50,279 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 143 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 229.2 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1435.1 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 3,503,613. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 77 Utah cities and 23 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for Utah below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 211.8 to 229.2 per 100,000, a rise of 8.2%. City-level detail pages within Utah include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.

How Utah ranks nationally

Utah vs. every U.S. state

Violent crime per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer.

229 Safer than 75% among 51 U.S. states

UT 0 1,100+ every state & DC, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band of values; taller bars hold more U.S. states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · 2024

Safest cities · Most dangerous cities · Crime trends

Crime Trends

Year Population Violent Crime Rate Property Crime Rate
2024 3,503,613 8,030 229.2 50,279 1435.1
2023 3,417,734 7,967 233.1 56,214 1644.8
2022 3,380,800 8,214 243 64,717 1914.3
2021 3,337,975 8,270 247.8 68,258 2044.9
2020 3,249,879 7,745 238.3 74,977 2307.1
2019 3,205,958 7,432 231.8 68,164 2126.2
2018 3,161,105 7,390 233.8 74,168 2346.3
2017 3,101,833 7,449 240.1 85,372 2752.3
2016 3,051,217 7,299 239.2 89,697 2939.7
2015 2,995,919 7,027 234.6 89,371 2983.1
2014 2,942,902 6,234 211.8 83,207 2827.4

Cities in Utah

Safest cities in Utah

Cities with 25,000+ residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Lone Peak is the safest sizeable city in Utah, at 29.2 violent crimes per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Highest violent-crime cities in Utah

Cities with 25,000+ residents, highest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Salt Lake City reports the highest big-city violent-crime rate in Utah, at 864.2 per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Salt Lake City is both volume #1 and rate #1 among 34 Utah cities with 25,000+ residents in FBI UCR 2024. That non-invert is disclosed, not hidden.

Utah's largest cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 14 cities; the anchor is ringed. Utah's largest cities, violent vs. property crime 79 933 Violent crime per 100K → 487 5,616 Property crime per 100K → Salt Lake City West Valley West Jordan Provo SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are Utah's statewide averages · the four largest cities are labeled
Read the chart as a list
  • Salt Lake City: 864 violent, 5200 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • West Valley: 470 violent, 1842 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • West Jordan: 294 violent, 1359 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Provo: 207 violent, 1271 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • St. George: 210 violent, 1003 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Lehi: 88 violent, 541 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Orem: 175 violent, 1360 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Ogden: 505 violent, 1925 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • South Jordan: 115 violent, 867 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Layton: 130 violent, 1346 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Herriman: 117 violent, 598 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Saratoga Springs: 91 violent, 575 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Logan: 137 violent, 1131 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Taylorsville City: 170 violent, 1866 property per 100,000 (grade B)
C

Utah safety livability score: 72/100

Percentile-benchmarked against all 51 tracked states, 2024 FBI UCR data.

  • Violent crime rate

    229.2/100K · B (75th percentile)

  • Property crime rate

    1435.1/100K · C (67th percentile)

  • Murder rate

    N/A, dropped from score, weight redistributed

City Population Violent / 100K Grade
Salt Lake City 212,675
864.2
F
West Valley 132,686
469.5
D
West Jordan 114,211
294.2
C
Provo 112,763
206.6
B
St. George 107,595
210
B
Lehi 95,189
88.2
A
Orem 94,571
174.5
B
Ogden 87,258
505.4
D
South Jordan 86,846
115.1
A
Layton 84,017
129.7
A
Herriman 61,387
117.3
A
Saratoga Springs 58,400
90.8
A
Logan 56,083
137.3
A
Taylorsville City 56,047
169.5
B
American Fork/Cedar Hills 50,121
119.7
A
Murray 49,238
278.2
C
Draper 49,166
170.8
B
Spanish Fork 46,536
75.2
A
Riverton 44,711
71.6
A
Cedar City 41,556
146.8
A
Tooele 40,402
349
C
Syracuse 38,714
51.7
A+
Roy 38,353
213.8
B
Pleasant Grove 37,148
204.6
B
Washington 35,835
150.7
A
Springville 35,521
160.5
A
Clearfield 35,374
316.6
C
Kaysville 32,915
97.2
A
Cottonwood Heights 31,778
88.1
A
Lone Peak 30,812
29.2
A+
Farmington 26,187
61.1
A
South Salt Lake 25,930
767.5
F
Hurricane 25,362
205
B
Payson 25,051
127.7
A
North Salt Lake 23,720
37.9
A
Clinton 23,630
88.9
A
North Ogden 22,645
83.9
A
Santaquin/Genola 20,580
102
A
Bluffdale 19,714
187.7
A
Santa Clara/Ivins 19,369
77.4
A+
Heber 19,082
214.9
B
North Park 17,789
78.7
A
South Ogden 17,740
146.6
A
Centerville 16,398
79.3
A
Grantsville 16,216
283.7
B
Tremonton Garland 16,054
112.1
A
Smithfield 15,093
53
A+
Mapleton 14,584
82.3
A
Lindon 11,819
76.1
A
Woods Cross 11,482
113.2
A
Pleasant View 11,326
79.5
A
Salem 11,213
8.9
A+
Vernal 10,718
279.9
C
Riverdale 9,088
385.1
D
Enoch 8,644
81
A+
Richfield 8,306
313
C
Price 8,271
120.9
A
Park City 8,201
414.6
C
Roosevelt 7,370
190
B
Nephi 7,353
136
A
Harrisville 6,725
119
B
Ephraim 6,279
0
A+
Perry 6,057
297.2
B
West Bountiful 5,828
120.1
A
Kanab 5,433
18.4
A+
Sunset 5,322
375.8
C
Moab 5,175
734.3
F
La Verkin 4,566
21.9
A
Mount Pleasant 3,942
253.7
B
Naples 2,529
118.6
A
Willard 2,389
209.3
B
Helper 2,126
470.4
C
Wellington 1,634
183.6
A
Mantua 1,377
0
A+
Hildale 1,270
236.2
B
Springdale 614
325.7
C
Brian Head 160
625
F

Counties in Utah

23 of 29 Census county-equivalents (79.3%) appear in FBI Table 10 for this vintage. Missing counties are absent from the FBI source for this year, not dropped by PlainCrime. See national county coverage and methodology.

Largest counties in Utah, violent crime per 100K

The 7 of the 8 largest counties with complete FBI agency coverage, violent crime per 100,000 residents. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K
Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Not charted (Incomplete report): Davis. Its 2024 FBI agency coverage fails this site's completeness screen, so a rate here would read as unusually safe only because agencies did not report.

Beaver
Box Elder
Cache
Carbon
Davis
Duchesne
Emery
Garfield
Grand
Iron
Kane
Millard
Piute
Rich
Sanpete
Sevier
Summit
Tooele
Uintah
Utah
Wasatch
Washington
Weber

Nationwide peers for Utah

Similar violent rate (~229.2/100K)

Similar property rate (~1,435.1/100K)

Nearby States

Tennessee
TN
Texas
TX
Vermont
VT
Virginia
VA
Washington
WA

Safest cities · Most dangerous · Trends · National rankings · Crime grades · Compare · Methodology

Primary source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States annual release. State-level trends cross-check against the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) API.

Population figures for rate calculations reference U.S. Census Bureau estimates where FBI-reported populations are unavailable. Verify with Census.gov QuickFacts.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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