The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Saratoga Springs, UT
Saratoga Springs is a city of 47,100 in Utah County, about 15 miles northwest of downtown Provo · Updated November 2026
Is Saratoga Springs, UT safe?
Yes, crime in Saratoga Springs is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Saratoga Springs sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 57% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A here. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A to A-; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 869 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
57% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Saratoga Springs as a whole, and 43% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Saratoga Springs scores 869.
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 Saratoga Springs, UT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Saratoga Springs, 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 Saratoga Springs
Reported rape is the exception. Saratoga Springs grades A for violent crime, but reported rape grades B-, worse than in the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live.
Aggravated assault runs low. Saratoga Springs has 0.71 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, a small fraction of the US rate of 2.6.
The safest and least safe parts of Saratoga Springs
Every part of Saratoga Springs where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Saratoga Springs run from A to A-; 92% 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 Saratoga Springs, the west side has the least crime and the north side the most.
Is crime going up in Saratoga Springs?
Reported crime in Saratoga Springs has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 46% and property crime down 27%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.7 to 0.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 8.0 to 5.9 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 17%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Saratoga SpringsUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Saratoga Springs. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Saratoga Springs
Violent, US
Property, Saratoga Springs
Property, US
2016
-72%
+4%
-2%
+15%
2017
-72%
+4%
-2%
+12%
2018
-40%
+0%
-8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-36%
+4%
-10%
-8%
2021
-19%
+6%
-19%
-10%
2022
-36%
+5%
-16%
-6%
2023
-38%
+2%
-37%
-7%
2024
-46%
-4%
-26%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Saratoga Springs
CrimeGrade™ estimates Saratoga Springs has about 16 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 56% less than the US as a whole and 49% 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 is the most common crime in Saratoga Springs, about 39% of everything reported, but assault 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 Saratoga Springs
Saratoga Springs has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Saratoga Springs, 64% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 51% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (64%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Homes (51%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (44%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Aggravated assault
Homes (71%)
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; they are over one in five for burglary, theft from cars, vandalism, aggravated assault.
How Saratoga Springs compares with nearby cities
Saratoga Springs has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest cities. Eagle Mountain and Alpine have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Saratoga Springs. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Saratoga Springs is safer than 66% of them.
Two things set Saratoga Springs apart: it has 13 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 4.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and robbery, and theft runs low here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.13 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 94% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.4.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 93% 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. 94% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (9 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 78% of US city residents
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 72% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.31% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 69% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 63% of US city residents
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 Saratoga Springs
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Saratoga Springs about $800 a year per household, 34% 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 $24 million a year, or $503 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$970,000
$21
Rape
$1.2 million
$25
Robbery
$20,000
under $1
Assault
$2.5 million
$52
Burglary
$170,000
$4
Theft
$1.5 million
$33
Vehicle theft
$200,000
$4
Arson
$18,000
under $1
Vandalism
$1.3 million
$27
Total
$7.8 million
$166
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 Saratoga Springs 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. Saratoga Springs is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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 Saratoga Springs, UT average a SchoolGrade of A-: 52% of students test proficient, against 47% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Saratoga Springs on SchoolGrade
