Utah data on violent crime and solve rates

Violent crime in Utah

In 2025, 236 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in Utah. This is nearly the same as the violent crime rate in 2019.

The crime rate in Utah in 2025 was 28 percent lower than the United States average.

Data regarding crime and solve rates come from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Violent crime includes homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, and rape. Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of estimated incidents by the total population for a given geography. For more information, see the data sources and methodology section below.

Solved violent crime in Utah

In 2025, 59 percent of violent crimes reported to police in Utah were solved. This is 7 percentage points higher than the solve rate in 2019.

Solve rates are the number of reported crimes cleared by arrest or by exceptional means divided by the number of reported crimes. For more information, see the data sources and methodology section below.

Solved violent crime by county in Utah

Solved violent crime by agency in Utah

In the following table, violent crime incident rates, as well as violent crime solve rates, are included for each of the 119 law enforcement agencies that reported data in Utah in 2025. Violent crime solve rates by offense differ across agencies across the state. The state solve rate for aggravated assault is 70 percent. Homicide is 78 percent, and rape is 37 percent.

Please note that rates calculated for agencies with smaller jurisdiction populations, as well as fewer overall incidents, are less reliable than those for larger jurisdictions and should be interpreted with caution. Some agencies report no violent crime or no solved crimes, which suggests incomplete reporting, so the tables leave out their rates. State solve rates come from the FBI’s state data and include every reporting agency.

Gray solve rates and changes are based on fewer than 10 reported incidents in a year.

A dash (—) marks a rate that can’t be calculated or is left out. Rates per 100k show a dash for agencies with no jurisdiction population of their own, such as transit and campus police, and for agencies that reported no violent crime. Solve rates show a dash for agencies that reported no violent crime or no solved crimes. Solve-rate change also shows a dash when the agency lacks full reporting in 2019 or 2025, or reported no violent crime or no solved crimes in 2019.

Orange indicates a solve rate less than the state rate.

Blue indicates a solve rate greater than or equal to the state rate.

Gray solve rates are based on fewer than 10 reported incidents.

A dash (—) marks a rate that is left out because the agency reported no incidents of that offense, no violent crime or no solved crimes.

Law enforcement resources in Utah

Spending and staffing may show the level of policing a community receives, which can affect both crime and solve rates. Severe staff shortages, for example, can reduce investigative personnel or increase the number of cases each officer manages.

Spending on law enforcement in Utah increased by 1 percent from 2019 to 2024, adjusting for inflation. Expenditures include state and local spending on police departments, sheriffs’ offices, and state agencies such as highway patrols.

The number of officers per 10,000 residents in Utah increased by 12 percent from 2019 to 2025.

The number of officers per 1,000 violent crimes in Utah increased by 13 percent from 2019 to 2025. This increase may be due to a combination of an increase in law enforcement officers and/or a decrease in reported violent crimes.

Exploration of homicide solve rates in Utah

Explore homicide solve rates by available victim demographics and case characteristics for Utah and other states in the CSG Western Region. Grouping states by region allows policymakers to compare their state to others that may be similar. Solve rates are included by race and ethnicity, gender, age, weapon type, and number of victims. For more information, see the data sources and methodology section below.


Data on crime and solve rates come from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Statewide counts of reported violent crime from 2015 through 2025 come from the Summary Reporting System (SRS) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The FBI estimates reported crime for each state from agency-level reports, accounting for agencies that did not report, and publishes these estimates on its Crime Data Explorer. State solve rates are calculated by dividing crimes cleared by crimes reported among agencies that reported to the FBI. Solved crimes are estimated by multiplying the state’s solve rate by the FBI’s estimate of its reported crimes. The county and agency sections use agency-level data from the Crime Data Explorer for 2025, which combines NIBRS and SRS reports converted to the SRS format.

The FBI stopped collecting SRS data after 2020 and required agencies to report through NIBRS. Fewer agencies reported as a result, so 2021 estimates are less reliable. Starting with 2022 data, the FBI again accepted SRS reports from agencies that could not submit NIBRS data. Agencies covering 95 percent of Utah’s population reported in 2021. The solve rate charts show 2021 only where reporting agencies covered at least 70 percent of the population, so they include 2021 for Utah. The U.S. solve rate includes 2021, when agencies covering 77 percent of the U.S. population reported.

State crime rates are calculated by dividing estimated reported crimes by the state’s total population. Population data come from the U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program.

Crime counts follow the FBI’s hierarchy rule, which counts only the most serious offense in each incident. Homicide ranks highest, followed by rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. An incident that includes both a robbery and an aggravated assault, for example, counts as one robbery.

Solve rates are the number of reported crimes cleared by arrest or by exceptional means divided by the number of reported crimes. A crime is cleared by exceptional means when an agency cannot arrest or charge the person who committed it but has done all of the following:

  1. Identified the person who committed the crime
  2. Gathered enough evidence to support an arrest, make a charge, and turn the person over to the court for prosecution
  3. Identified the suspect’s exact location so that the person could be taken into custody immediately
  4. Encountered a circumstance outside the agency’s control that prevents it from arresting, charging, and prosecuting the person

Examples include the death of the person who committed the crime, a victim who refuses to cooperate with prosecution, and a denied extradition. Agencies can also clear cases reported in earlier years, so a year’s solve rate can exceed 100 percent.

The U.S. solve rate divides the total of estimated solved crimes across states by the total of estimated reported crimes. U.S. solve rates leave out Illinois, which did not report reliable clearance data.

Agency- and county-level violent crime and solve rate data presented above are restricted to agencies reporting data for all 12 months in 2025. Agencies that serve at least 10,000 residents but report no violent crime, and agencies that report at least 10 violent incidents but no solved crimes, likely reported incompletely. The tables list these agencies without their rates, and the map leaves them out. State solve rates still include them, as reported to the FBI. Solve rates based on fewer than 10 incidents appear in gray in the tables. The calculation of population covered by reporting agencies, as well as the number of reporting agencies by county, is also based on agencies with violent crime data for all 12 months.

Each law enforcement agency appears on the map in exactly one county. Agencies based in a single county use that county. Agencies whose jurisdiction spans several counties use the county holding the largest share of the agency’s place or county subdivision population in the Census Bureau’s 2025 Population Estimates, or the largest listed county when no place matches. The agency tables list every county an agency covers. Agencies with no listed county are placed in the county that holds their address location when one is available. Statewide and tribal agencies, along with a few agencies with no county or location, appear in the tables and in state totals but not on the map. In New York, the New York City Police Department and other agencies based in the five boroughs are combined into a single New York City area on the map. The population covered by reporting agencies is the sum of the jurisdiction populations of agencies reporting data for all 12 months in 2025. The change in solve rate since 2019 compares each agency with itself and appears only for agencies that reported all 12 months in both years. It also shows a dash for agencies that reported at least 10 violent incidents but no solved crimes in 2019.

Counties with fewer than 25 reported violent incidents in 2025 are excluded from the map, as calculations of solve rates are not reliable.

Data on law enforcement expenditures come from the U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances. Expenditures include police protection spending by the state government and all local governments in the state, such as counties and municipalities. Expenditures are in 2024 dollars, adjusted with the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U), following the Census Bureau’s guidance.

Officer counts include sworn officers in state and local law enforcement agencies as of October 31 of each year, from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer law enforcement employee data. Officers per capita uses the population served by agencies that reported employee counts. Officers per violent crime divides that rate by the state’s violent crime rate from the FBI’s state estimates.

Data on homicide solve rates and case characteristics come from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR). The analysis includes murder and nonnegligent manslaughter and excludes manslaughter by negligence. SHR data do not record clearances, so a homicide counts as solved when the offender’s age, sex, and race are known. Solve rates combine data from 2022 through 2025 for more stable estimates.