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Utah Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Utah cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
37
Supported Utah cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Salt Lake City
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
8.8 / 1k
2 South Salt Lake
Violent Crime has declined 20% since 2021.
8.6 / 1k
3 Ogden
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
5.5 / 1k
4 Vernal
Violent Crime has increased 108% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
5 Tooele
Violent Crime has declined 15% since 2021.
4.7 / 1k
6 Park City
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
4.2 / 1k
7 Clearfield
Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021.
3.9 / 1k
8 West Jordan
Violent Crime has increased 19% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
9 Orem
Violent Crime has increased 19% since 2021.
3.7 / 1k
10 Murray
Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021.
3.6 / 1k
11 Roy
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
12 Logan
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021.
3.0 / 1k
13 Layton
Violent Crime has increased 4% since 2021.
2.8 / 1k
14 Cedar City
Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
15 Provo
Violent Crime has increased 73% since 2021.
2.6 / 1k
16 Pleasant Grove
Violent Crime has increased 79% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
17 Hurricane
Violent Crime has declined 8% since 2021.
2.3 / 1k
18 Draper
Violent Crime has increased 16% since 2021.
2.2 / 1k
19 Springville
Violent Crime has increased 22% since 2021.
2.2 / 1k
20 Sandy
Violent Crime moved up by 1.4 / 1k from 0.8 / 1k in 2021 to 2.2 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
2.2 / 1k
21 Payson
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
22 Washington
Violent Crime has increased 19% since 2021.
1.9 / 1k
23 Farmington
Violent Crime has declined 20% since 2021.
1.6 / 1k
24 Herriman
Violent Crime has increased 14% since 2021.
1.6 / 1k
25 South Jordan
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
1.6 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Utah cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.