Photo: User:JerAnderson · Public domainCottonwood Heights records less violent crime per head than 77% of U.S. towns
Its letter overall is B− (#37 of 62 graded towns in Utah): close to the middle of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. By contrast, for every 1,000 residents, 0.7 violent crime and 16.5 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Utah, the figures are 2.6 and 16.1. Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of UT” is every other Utah city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Cottonwood Heights
Cottonwood Heights reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 4 Utah towns on Cottonwood Heights’ borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Sandy (C), Murray (D). Holladay and Midvale have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
Cottonwood Heights has 19,571 jobs based in town for 32,265 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Cottonwood Heights’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Cottonwood Heights’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (16.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Cottonwood Heights | Rest of Utah | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Cottonwood Heights’ police reported 68 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.6 in the rest of Utah and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Cottonwood Heights per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Cottonwood Heights property | Rest of Utah property | Cottonwood Heights violent | Rest of Utah violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19.8 | 20.7 | 1.2 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 17.9 | 18.2 | 0.5 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 16.1 | 15.9 | 0.9 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 0.7 | 2.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Utah.
524 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
23 violent and 501 property, as reported to the FBI by Cottonwood Heights’ police.
Five people died in crashes on Cottonwood Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Cottonwood Heights had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is about what is typical for Utah towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (3.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Cottonwood Heights’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cottonwood Heights’s own rate (3.0) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Cottonwood Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Heights | B− | 0.7 | 16.5 |
| Sandy | C | 2.0 | 20.5 |
| Holladay | — | — | — |
| Midvale | — | — | — |
| Murray | D | 2.5 | 33.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Holladay and Midvale have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Utah towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Heights | B− | 0.7 | 16.5 |
| Kaysville | A− | 0.7 | 5.9 |
| Pleasant Grove | B | 1.6 | 7.4 |
| Springville | B | 1.3 | 8.6 |
| Washington | B | 1.2 | 9.6 |
| Clearfield | C+ | 2.5 | 11.1 |
The five graded Utah towns closest to Cottonwood Heights’ population (32,265), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Cottonwood Heights. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Cottonwood Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (32,173 in 2025); our figure for Cottonwood Heights is 32,265 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Cottonwood Heights
Is Cottonwood Heights, UT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Cottonwood Heights reports more crime per resident than 52% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #37 of 62 in Utah. Its police reported 0.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.6 in the rest of Utah and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Cottonwood Heights?
0.7 violent and 16.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Utah reports 2.6 and 16.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Cottonwood Heights in 2025?
Cottonwood Heights’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Cottonwood Heights safer than Sandy?
Sandy reports more crime per resident than Cottonwood Heights: Sandy grades C for safety and Cottonwood Heights B−. Sandy’s police reported 2.0 violent and 20.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Cottonwood Heights?
Cottonwood Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cottonwood Heights”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.