Crime in Cottonwood Heights, Utah
Major crime in Cottonwood Heights is 7% below the U.S. rate per resident: 70% lower for persons crimes and 7% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.0% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cottonwood Heights for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Cottonwood Heights
The middle half of Cottonwood Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 47 and 77; the typical (median) resident's is 60. The citywide figure (93) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5028.1%
- 50–10055.3%
- 100–20011.8%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+4.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.0% in a year; across Utah it fell 9.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Utah as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Cottonwood Heights against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
362 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cottonwood Heights; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cottonwood Heights has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Sandy (3 mi), is about Cottonwood Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cottonwood Heights
What are the most common crimes in Cottonwood Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 204 a year), other larceny (about 130 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 90 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Cottonwood Heights's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cottonwood Heights has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 9.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 31,944. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cottonwood Heights, Utah." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ut/cottonwood-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Sandy3 mi94
- Holladay4 mi125
- Midvale4 mi284
- White City4 mi132
- Murray4 mi164
- Millcreek5 mi203
- South Salt Lake7 mi249
- Taylorsville7 mi104