Safest Counties in Utah: 9 Ranked (2026)
The 9 Utah counties where police report enough to the FBI to build a reliable rate, ranked by violent crime, with home prices, asking rents and incomes where available.
Utah has 29 counties. Nine of them clear the reporting bar this page uses, and the gap between the quietest, Box Elder at 111 violent offenses per 100,000, and the busiest, Salt Lake at 344, is 3.1 to one. Prices are shown where Resideline tracks enough closings to publish a median.
The crime rates here are built from the 3,212,362 residents those police agencies actually report on, over the months they reported. Each figure is a single county-wide figure, so treat this as a way to narrow a search rather than a verdict on any street.
We do not treat missing or conflicting crime data as zero. A county appears here only when its reporting clears our reliability threshold, and we set aside results that conflict materially with the state's own records. Whether a county is ranked depends on its crime reporting alone; whether it shows a price depends on whether Resideline tracked enough closings there.
The ranking
| # | County | Violent per 100k | Property per 100k | Median closed price | Median asking rent | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Box Elder | 111 | 538 | n/a | n/a | $96,063 |
| 2 | Davis | 113 | 916 | n/a | n/a | $106,675 |
| 3 | Cache | 120 | 575 | n/a | n/a | $81,598 |
| 4 | Utah | 124 | 747 | n/a | n/a | $100,611 |
| 5 | Washington | 172 | 790 | n/a | n/a | $86,715 |
| 6 | Iron | 177 | 549 | n/a | n/a | $73,868 |
| 7 | Weber | 237 | 1,068 | n/a | n/a | $88,111 |
| 8 | Tooele | 333 | 1,043 | n/a | n/a | $111,901 |
| 9 | Salt Lake | 344 | 2,277 | n/a | n/a | $99,008 |
A closer look at each county
1. Box Elder County
At 111 violent offenses per 100,000, Box Elder sits in the lowest quarter of the places on this list. The median comparable US county records 245, so it is quieter than most of the country too. Its property rate is also among the lowest here, 538 per 100,000, or 0.5 times the median comparable US county.
2. Davis County
Davis's violent crime rate is 113 per 100,000 residents, the lowest quarter among the Utah counties Resideline can measure. That is below the median comparable US county, which records 245. Its property rate, 916 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties.
3. Cache County
At 120 violent offenses per 100,000, Cache sits in the lowest quarter of the places on this list. That is below the median comparable US county, which records 245. Households there earn a median of $81,598, about 85 percent of the median for these counties. Property crime is low too, at 575 per 100,000, the bottom quarter of this list and 0.5 times the median comparable US county.
4. Utah County
Utah's violent crime rate is 124 per 100,000 residents, the middle range among the Utah counties Resideline can measure. The median comparable US county records 245, so it is quieter than most of the country too. Its property rate, 747 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties.
5. Washington County
Police in Washington reported 172 violent offenses per 100,000 people, putting it in the middle range of this list. That is below the median comparable US county, which records 245. Its property rate, 790 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties.
6. Iron County
At 177 violent offenses per 100,000, Iron sits in the middle range of the places on this list. That is below the median comparable US county, which records 245. Median household income is $73,868, roughly 77 percent of the level across this list. Property crime is low, at 549 per 100,000, the bottom quarter of this list and 0.5 times the median comparable US county.
7. Weber County
Police in Weber reported 237 violent offenses per 100,000 people, putting it in the middle range of this list. That is close to the median comparable US county, which records 245. Theft and burglary are the larger problem: 1,068 property offenses per 100,000, 0.9 times the median comparable US county.
8. Tooele County
Tooele records 333 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, which places it in the highest quarter of the Utah counties measured here. That is 1.4 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, and above the Utah statewide rate of 226 per 100,000 in the same data. Households there earn a median of $111,901, about 116 percent of the median for these counties. Property offenses run at 1,043 per 100,000, in the middle of this list.
9. Salt Lake County
At 344 violent offenses per 100,000, Salt Lake sits in the highest quarter of the places on this list. That is 1.4 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, and above the Utah statewide rate of 226 per 100,000 in the same data. Property crime is the higher of its two figures at 2,277 per 100,000, the top quarter of this list and 1.9 times the median comparable US county.
How to read this list
These figures describe whole areas. A quiet town and a rough district an hour apart carry the same number here, so the ranking is a starting point for a search rather than a description of any particular street.
Prices and rents are as of September 9, 2026, from closings and rental listings Resideline tracks over the previous 12 months; a price is shown where at least 100 closings were tracked and a rent where at least 50 listings were. Rent figures are the median asking rent on listings, not lease figures. Crime is the 2025 FBI Crime Data Explorer release, measured for the whole county over the months each agency reported, and violent crime means murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Household income is the Census SAIPE 2024 estimate of the county's median household income; population is the Census 2024 estimate. Where this page compares a rate with the median comparable US county, that figure (245 violent and 1188 property offenses per 100,000) is the median across the 874 US counties with at least 50,000 residents whose agencies reported on 90 percent or more of them for the year.
Sources and related pages
- •Crime: FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency-level offense counts for 2025, aggregated by county over the months each agency reported.
- •Income: Census SAIPE 2024, county median household income.
- •Population: Census county population estimates, vintage 2024.
- •Prices and rents: Resideline's tracked closings and rental listings, 12 months to September 2026.
- •Related: Safest counties by state; Does crime actually lower home prices?; Utah housing market.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the safest county in Utah?
Of the 9 Utah counties measured here, Box Elder County records the lowest violent crime rate at 111 offenses per 100,000 residents, against 245 for the median comparable US county.
Is this every county in Utah?
No. It covers 9 of the state's 29 counties, the ones where police agencies report at least 90 percent of the population to the FBI, the area has at least 50,000 residents, and the resulting rate falls inside the sanity bounds we apply. Whether Resideline has enough sales there decides only whether a price is shown. No place above 150,000 residents was excluded.
Is this crime rate for my neighborhood?
No. The FBI publishes these figures for whole counties, so every part of a county carries the same number here, from its densest district to its farmland. It is useful for narrowing a search and not a substitute for looking at a specific address.
Are these rents asking rents or lease rents?
They are the median asking rent on rental listings in the county over the last 12 months. That is what landlords advertised, a guide to the market rather than a lease figure.
About the author
Jeffrey Batista
Jeffrey Batista is the founder of Resideline, a real estate technology company building institutional grade valuation and investment analysis tools for real estate investors.
A software engineer with more than 10 years of experience, Jeffrey has worked across full stack development, infrastructure, data engineering, machine learning, and large scale systems. He left his engineering career to build Resideline full time.
Jeffrey is also a real estate investor with nearly a decade of hands on experience buying, renovating, managing, and analyzing residential properties. His experience on both sides of the industry, as an engineer and an investor, led him to build Resideline after seeing how fragmented and outdated many of the tools available to individual investors were.
Today, he leads the development of Resideline's proprietary data infrastructure, automated valuation models, rental analytics, and investment underwriting technology.