The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Draper, UT
Draper is a city of 49,300 in Salt Lake County, about 17 miles south of downtown Salt Lake City · Updated November 2026
Is Draper, UT safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Draper is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Draper sits near the middle: 57% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 43% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A and property crime A-. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A to A-; see the map below.
A
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 867 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
57% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Draper as a whole, and 43% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Draper scores 867.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Draper, UT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Draper, 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 in Draper
Reported rape is the exception. Draper grades A for violent crime, but reported rape grades C+, worse than in the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live.
Vehicle theft runs low. Draper has 0.79 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, a small fraction of the US rate of 2.7.
The safest and least safe parts of Draper
Every part of Draper where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Draper run from A to A-; 83% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Draper, the southeast side has the least crime and the north side the most.
Is crime going up in Draper?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Draper is up 18% and property crime is down 42%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.4 to 1.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 19 to 11 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 26%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
DraperUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Draper. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Draper
Violent, US
Property, Draper
Property, US
2016
+10%
+4%
+61%
+15%
2017
+10%
+4%
+56%
+12%
2018
+30%
+0%
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-6%
+4%
+19%
-8%
2021
-10%
+6%
+14%
-10%
2022
-18%
+5%
-4%
-6%
2023
+21%
+2%
-22%
-7%
2024
+18%
-4%
-42%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Draper
CrimeGrade™ estimates Draper has about 23 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 39% less than the US as a whole and 29% less than Utah.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 39% of crime reported in Draper. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 crime happens in Draper
Draper has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Draper, 60% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 44% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (60%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (40%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (44%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Draper compares with nearby cities
Draper has more crime than 7 of its 10 nearest cities. Alpine and Highland have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Draper apart: it has 100 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 2.0% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.100 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 96% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.2.0% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 95% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 90% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (10 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 74% of US city residents
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.5 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 75% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.11.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 66% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Draper: D- (8 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 58% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Draper on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 crime costs Draper
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Draper about $807 a year per household, 33% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $36 million a year, or $721 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.3 million
$27
Rape
$2.1 million
$42
Robbery
$240,000
$5
Assault
$2.8 million
$56
Burglary
$560,000
$11
Theft
$2.2 million
$45
Vehicle theft
$600,000
$12
Arson
$83,000
$2
Vandalism
$2.0 million
$40
Total
$12 million
$241
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Draper means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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. 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.
Schools in Draper, UT average a SchoolGrade of A: 55% of students test proficient, against 49% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Draper on SchoolGrade
