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B+
Safety in Nephi · FBI data, 2023–2025

Nephi reports less crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns

On crimes reported to the FBI by Nephi’s police in 2023–2025, it grades B+ for safety: #13 of 62 graded towns in Utah.

Violent crime
1.1
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of UT (2.5)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
6.4
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of UT (16.1)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
164
24 violent · 140 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Nephi’s grade

Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.

Where Nephi sits
B+ Violent 1.1B+ Property 6.4
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 72%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Utah towns we grade (62)Less crime than 79% · #13 of 62
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 72%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 164 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Nephi anywhere from B+ to A−.
A note on the data.2025 figures come from the FBI's Crime Data Explorer; the FBI's published 2025 table doesn't include this department; the grade uses the figures as published.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Nephi’s police reported 24 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the rest of Utah and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 5 property crimes reported

And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (4.8)Violent crime (1.1)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Nephi1.1
Rest of UT2.5
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Nephi4.8
Rest of UT14.3
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

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.

Show as a table
YearNephi propertyRest of Utah propertyNephi violentRest of Utah violent
20227.620.70.92.7
20237.118.20.92.5
20247.315.91.42.6
20254.814.31.12.5

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

44 crimes reported in 2025

8 violent and 36 property, as reported to the FBI by Nephi’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Robbery0
Homicide0
8
violent crimes
36
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total. 2025 figures come from FBI Crime Data Explorer, which publishes violent crime, homicides, robberies and property crime only.

On the roads

One person died in crashes on Nephi’s roads in 2019–2023

Nephi had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.

That is about what is typical for Utah towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (4.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Nephi’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Nephi’s own rate (2.9) is context, not a ranking.

1
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
2.9
per 100,000 a year · Utah towns of 5,000–25,000: 4.3

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.

Next door

Nephi and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Nephi
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
NephiB+1.16.4

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Utah towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
NephiB+1.16.4
HarrisvilleC1.221.8
PriceC2.916.7
RooseveltC3.516.1
RichfieldC2.321.8
Park CityC−4.620.3

The five graded Utah towns closest to Nephi’s population (7,488), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Nephi. 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 Nephi’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,556 in 2025); our figure for Nephi is 7,488 (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 Nephi

Is Nephi, UT safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Nephi reports less crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #13 of 62 in Utah. Its police reported 1.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the rest of Utah and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

What is the crime rate in Nephi?

1.1 violent and 6.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Utah reports 2.5 and 16.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.

Is crime going up or down in Nephi?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Nephi?

Nephi’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Nephi Police Department”. 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.