The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Tooele, UT
Tooele is a city of 58,700 in Tooele County, about 25 miles southwest of downtown Salt Lake City · Updated November 2026
Is Tooele, UT safe?
Mostly, yes. Crime in Tooele is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-, but most US neighborhoods are safer still: Tooele has more crime than the neighborhoods where 61% of Americans live. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A- against B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Tooele run from A to B-, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 774 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
39% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Tooele as a whole, and 61% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Tooele scores 774.
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 Tooele, UT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Tooele, 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 Tooele
Reported rape is the exception. Tooele grades B+ for violent crime, but reported rape grades D+, worse than in the neighborhoods where 96% of Americans live.
Vehicle theft runs low. Tooele has 0.62 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 Tooele
Every part of Tooele where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Tooele run from A to B-; 42% 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 Tooele, the northeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Tooele?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Tooele is up 70% and property crime is down 44%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.0 to 3.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 24 to 13 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 30%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
TooeleUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Tooele. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Tooele
Violent, US
Property, Tooele
Property, US
2016
+133%
+4%
+85%
+15%
2017
+58%
+4%
+43%
+12%
2018
+45%
+0%
+35%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+48%
+4%
-5%
-8%
2021
+101%
+6%
-8%
-10%
2022
+124%
+5%
-25%
-6%
2023
+88%
+2%
-20%
-7%
2024
+70%
-4%
-44%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Tooele
CrimeGrade™ estimates Tooele has about 29 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 21% less than the US as a whole and close to 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Tooele is assault, about 40% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Tooele
Tooele has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Tooele, 49% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 63% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (49%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (59%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Homes (63%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (47%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Aggravated assault
Homes (75%)
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 Tooele compares with nearby cities
Tooele has the most crime of its 4 nearest cities.
Two things set Tooele apart: it has 2.6% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 5.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet vandalism runs higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.2.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 91% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.5.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 88% 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. 86% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (13 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% of US city residents
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.20 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 87% of US city residents
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.87% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 65% 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 Tooele: D- (8 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 59% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Tooele 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 Tooele
Crime costs Tooele about $1,176 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about the same as 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 $62 million a year, or $1,049 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$2.3 million
$40
Rape
$3.0 million
$51
Robbery
$150,000
$3
Assault
$7.3 million
$124
Burglary
$480,000
$8
Theft
$2.8 million
$48
Vehicle theft
$560,000
$9
Arson
$59,000
$1
Vandalism
$2.4 million
$41
Total
$19 million
$325
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 Tooele 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. Tooele 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 Tooele, UT average a SchoolGrade of D-: 33% of students test proficient, against 38% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Tooele on SchoolGrade
