Crime in South Salt Lake, Utah
Major crime in South Salt Lake is 2.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.3 times for persons crimes and 2.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.8% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 8.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Salt Lake 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 South Salt Lake
The middle half of South Salt Lake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 135 and 266; the typical (median) resident's is 173. The citywide figure (249) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20057.9%
- 200–40031.4%
- 400+10.7%
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 6.8% 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.
South Salt Lake against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
21 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Salt Lake; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Salt Lake has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Millcreek (3 mi), is 18% below South Salt Lake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Salt Lake
What are the most common crimes in South Salt Lake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 407 a year), theft from vehicle (about 189 a year) and shoplifting (about 171 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 8.3 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. South Salt Lake's figures add up its 17 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Salt Lake has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 92.0% 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: 26,844. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Salt Lake, Utah." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ut/south-salt-lake
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Millcreek3 mi203
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- Murray4 mi164
- Holladay4 mi125
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- West Valley City6 mi135
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