Safest Cities in Utah (2024 FBI Data)

These are the Utah cities with the lowest violent crime rates reported to the FBI, drawn from the same database that powers SafeNest. Every figure below is computed from 2024 FBI data by a script committed alongside this page.

47 Utah cities qualify for the ranking: municipalities of 10,000+ residents with their own police department, reporting a full year of 2024 data. North Salt Lake reports the lowest violent crime rate in the state at 37.9 per 100,000 residents.

Utah cities of 10,000+ residents with their own municipal police department, ranked by reported violent crime rate, 2024 FBI data. 47 cities qualified; the 25 with the lowest reported violent rate are shown.
#	City	Population	Violent / 100k	Property / 100k	Grade
1	North Salt Lake	23,720	37.9	990.7	A
2	Syracuse	38,714	51.7	501.1	A
3	Farmington	26,187	61.1	1,057.8	A
4	Riverton	44,711	71.6	896.9	A
5	Spanish Fork	46,536	75.2	704.8	A
6	Lindon	11,819	76.1	1,929.1	A
7	North Park	17,789	78.7	573.4	A
8	Centerville	16,398	79.3	1,433.1	A
9	Mapleton	14,584	82.3	342.8	A
10	North Ogden	22,645	83.9	490.2	A
11	Cottonwood Heights	31,778	88.1	1,614.3	A
12	Lehi	95,189	88.2	541.0	A
13	Clinton	23,630	88.9	770.2	A
14	Saratoga Springs	58,400	90.8	575.3	A
15	Kaysville	32,915	97.2	531.7	A
16	Santaquin/genola	20,580	102.0	369.3	A
17	Woods Cross	11,482	113.2	1,367.4	A
18	South Jordan	86,846	115.1	867.1	A
19	American Fork/cedar Hlls	50,121	119.7	1,458.5	A
20	American Fork/Cedar Hills	50,121	119.7	1,458.5	A
21	Payson	25,051	127.7	698.6	A
22	Layton	84,017	129.7	1,346.2	A
23	Logan	56,083	137.3	1,130.5	A
24	South Ogden	17,740	146.6	947.0	A
25	Cedar City	41,556	146.8	1,013.1	A

What the Utah data shows

The typical Utah city against the national baseline

The median ranked Utah city reports 146.6 violent crimes per 100,000 residents — 62% below the national baseline of 381 that SafeNest grades against. Its median property rate is 1,013.1 per 100,000. 91.5% of the state's ranked cities report a violent rate below the national average.

How the grades fall

Across those 47 cities: 28 grade A, 12 B, 5 C, 2 D and 0 F. That puts 59.6% of Utah's ranked cities at an A, against 38.5% of comparable cities nationally — above the national rate. The grade is national-relative, not a curve within the state: a city at exactly the US average violent and property crime rate scores 50 out of 100 and receives a C, wherever it is.

What the ranking leaves out

Three groups of Utah places are absent from the ranking, because each would otherwise take a top place without being a safe city (why):

19 county and sheriff agencies — county-wide averages are diluted by everything outside the urban core, so they outrank real cities without being cities.
5 cities reporting implausibly little crime — an agency can file a full year and report almost nothing in it. That is a reporting gap, not safety, and it would otherwise take first place.
3 cities whose most recent full year is not 2024 — ranking one city's older data against another's is not a comparison.

Which way Utah moved

Year-over-year direction, as reported: of the 47 ranked Utah cities with a comparable prior year, 16 reported a lower violent crime rate than the year before and 28 reported a higher one, with 3 roughly level. That is what the agencies filed for 2024 against their own previous year — it is a record of what changed, not a projection of what happens next. 24 of 47 ranked Utah cities reported no homicides at all.

How close the letters are in Utah

1 of Utah's 47 ranked cities would print a different letter grade if their violent crime count changed by a single incident. That is not a flaw peculiar to Utah: every threshold system has a boundary and some cities sit on it. It is the concrete reason to treat the gap between adjacent grades — and adjacent positions in the table above — as noise rather than a finding.

The largest cities in Utah

The ranking above is dominated by suburbs, because that is what a violent-crime rate does: it sorts small and affluent places to the top. Here are the biggest Utah cities in the same data, ordered by population rather than by crime, so you can see where they actually land.

The largest Utah cities in the ranking, by population — not by crime. Big cities carry higher reported rates almost everywhere, which is why a safest-cities list and a biggest-cities list look nothing alike.
City	Population	Violent / 100k	Property / 100k	Grade
Salt Lake City	212,675	864.2	5,200.0	D
West Valley	132,686	470.3	1,841.9	C
West Jordan	114,211	295.1	1,358.9	B
Provo	112,763	206.6	1,270.8	B
St. George	107,595	210.0	1,002.8	B
Lehi	95,189	88.2	541.0	A
Orem	94,571	174.5	1,359.8	B
Ogden	87,258	505.4	1,925.3	C

Why no small towns are on this list. Utah has 30 municipalities under 10,000 residents in the FBI data. 43.3% of them are graded A, and 6.7% reported no violent crime at all. In a town of a few thousand people that is the expected outcome in a given year rather than evidence of anything, and a single incident would move the rate sharply. Ranking them against cities would put towns at the top of this page on the strength of a number that is mostly noise, so they are excluded from the ranking and reported here instead.

Method, in short

Rankings come from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data (2024), via the Kaplan agency panel (DOI 10.3886/E100707V22). A city's score is 100 / (1 + severity), weighing its violent rate against a national baseline of 381 per 100,000 (70%) and its property rate against 1,954 per 100,000 (30%) — the same code that grades cities in the SafeNest app. Every number here is computed by generate_state_rankings.py; the ranking is a sort, not an edit.

A grade is not a verdict. It is a city-wide average of reported crime — an informational opinion, not a statement of fact, and not a description of any street, block or address. It may not be used for tenant screening, hiring or lending (Terms). Full sources and data vintages: methodology.

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