The Provo metro area, the 83rd-largest in the US, is home to 718,000 residents; Provo itself is the fourth-largest city in Utah · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in the Provo area?
Violent crime in the Provo area is a little lower than in most US neighborhoods: an A, safer than the neighborhoods where 62% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. The city of Provo itself grades A- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 898 of 1,000Less violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
62% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than the Provo area as a whole, and 38% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. The Provo area scores 898.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Provo, UT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Provo 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 violent crime in the Provo area
Reported rape is the exception. The Provo area grades A for violent crime, but reported rape grades B, worse than in the neighborhoods where 76% of Americans live.
Aggravated assaults run high in Franklin South, Central Business District & Maeser. In this part of south Provo, they run at about double the rate in the rest of Provo.
Robberies are uncommon. The Provo area has robberies at a small fraction of the US rate: 0.10 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in the Provo area
Every part of the Provo area where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across the Provo area run from A+ to B.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of Provo
1Indian Hills, Sherwood Hills & Rock Canyon, northeastSimple assaults run at about half the rate in the rest of Provo.A917
2Carterville & Little Rock Canyon, northAggravated assaults run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Provo.A891
3Tree Streets, eastClose to the rest of Provo on most crimes.A848
4Grand View North, northwestClose to the rest of Provo on most crimes.A-845
5Dixon, North Park & Lake View South, westClose to the rest of Provo on most crimes.A-835
6Joaquin, centralClose to the rest of Provo on most crimes.A-815
7Provo South, Provost & Rings Creek, southeastAggravated assaults run about 50% higher here than in the rest of Provo.A-813
8Lakewood, Franklin & Provo Bay, southwestAggravated assaults run about 50% higher here than in the rest of Provo.A-812
9Franklin South, Central Business District & Maeser, southSimple assaults run about 40% higher here than in the rest of Provo.A-781
Neighborhood areas of the city of Provo, ranked by violent 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 Provo metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by violent crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Is violent crime going up in the Provo area?
Reported violent crime in the Provo area has risen 39% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 0.9 to 1.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime rose 11%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Provo areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the Provo area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Provo area
Violent, US
2016
-15%
+4%
2017
-9%
+4%
2018
-3%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-2%
+4%
2021
+25%
+6%
2022
+24%
+5%
2023
+25%
+2%
2024
+39%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in the Provo area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Provo area has about 6.6 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 50% less than the US as a whole and 38% less than Utah.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in the Provo area, about 91% of the total. Murder and rape are far rarer, but they account for 48% of the cost of violent crime here.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in the Provo area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the Provo area, 2022 to 2024.
In the Provo area, 61% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 37% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (37%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (61%)
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.
Violent crime in the Provo area and nearby metro areas
The Provo area has the least violent crime of its 10 nearest metro areas.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Provo area. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Provo area is safer than 91% of them.
The Provo area looks like a typical metro area on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.28% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 60% of Americans in metro areas
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for the Provo area: D (14 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 54% 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 violent crime costs the Provo area
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs the Provo area about $382 million a year, or $532 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $87 million, or $121 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering are about 77% of that full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$20 million
$28
Rape
$21 million
$30
Robbery
$2.3 million
$3
Assault
$43 million
$60
Total
$87 million
$121
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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 Provo 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.
