The Salt Lake City metro area, the 46th-largest in the US, is home to 1.28 million residents; Salt Lake City itself is the capital and largest city of Utah · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in the Salt Lake City area?
The Salt Lake City area earns a B for property crime, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 68% of Americans live. Theft makes up 55% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades A-. The city of Salt Lake City itself grades C+ for property crime.
B
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 684 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
32% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than the Salt Lake City area as a whole, and 68% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Salt Lake City area scores 684.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Salt Lake City, UT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Salt Lake City area, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in the Salt Lake City area
One part of Salt Lake City stands out for vehicle theft. Car thefts in East Central, Central City & Central City Liberty Wells, in central Salt Lake City, run at more than double the rate in the rest of the city.
Vandalism is the exception. The Salt Lake City area grades B for property crime, but vandalism grades C+, worse than in the neighborhoods where 89% of Americans live.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in the Salt Lake City area
Most of the Salt Lake City area grades well for property crime: 70% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 13% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across the Salt Lake City area run from A+ to F.
70%17%13%
A or B 70%C 17%D or F 13%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
7Liberty Wells, southCar thefts run at more than double the rate in the rest of Salt Lake City.D+232
Neighborhood areas of the city of Salt Lake City, ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Salt Lake City metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Is property crime going up in the Salt Lake City area?
Reported property crime in the Salt Lake City area has fallen 34% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 34 to 22 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 17%.
Property crime, change since 2019
Salt Lake City areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the Salt Lake City area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Salt Lake City area
Property, US
2016
+38%
+15%
2017
+32%
+12%
2018
+10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+12%
-8%
2021
+4%
-10%
2022
-8%
-6%
2023
-21%
-7%
2024
-34%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in the Salt Lake City area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Salt Lake City area has about 32 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 34% more than the US as a whole and 48% more than Utah.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in the Salt Lake City area, about 55% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in the Salt Lake City area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the Salt Lake City area, 2022 to 2024.
In the Salt Lake City area, 51% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 34% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (51%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (34%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (37%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (40%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in the Salt Lake City area and nearby metro areas
The Salt Lake City area has less property crime than 5 of its 10 nearest metro areas.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Salt Lake City area. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Salt Lake City area has more property crime than 81% of them.
Night lighting, empty homes and density in the Salt Lake City area
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets the Salt Lake City area apart: it has 4.4% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, yet burglary runs higher here than that would suggest.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.98% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of Americans in metro areas
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.4.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 88% of Americans in metro areas
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.28% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 61% of Americans in metro areas
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs the Salt Lake City area
Property crime costs the Salt Lake City area about $276 million a year, or $217 per resident and about $647 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$27 million
$21
Theft
$115 million
$90
Vehicle theft
$43 million
$34
Arson
$3.6 million
$3
Vandalism
$88 million
$69
Total
$276 million
$217
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. These figures cover the whole Salt Lake City metro area. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
