Photo: Stanporter · CC BY-SA 4.0North Salt Lake has less violent crime per resident than three in four U.S. towns
The crimes the grade counts fell 27% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. Across all the graded crimes, North Salt Lake lands on B (#19 of 62 graded towns in Utah): less crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The yearly rates were 0.8 violent crime and 10.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 2.5 and 16.1 in the rest of Utah.
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 North Salt Lake
North Salt Lake reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Utah towns on North Salt Lake’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Woods Cross (B−), Salt Lake City (D−). Bountiful has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
North Salt Lake has 14,906 jobs based in town for 23,588 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind North Salt Lake’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; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | North Salt Lake | Rest of Utah | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
North Salt Lake’s police reported 58 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the rest of Utah and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | North Salt Lake property | Rest of Utah property | North Salt Lake violent | Rest of Utah violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17.7 | 20.7 | 1.2 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 11.7 | 18.2 | 1.2 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 9.9 | 15.9 | 0.4 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 8.5 | 14.3 | 0.9 | 2.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Utah.
Crime in North Salt Lake 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.
223 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.
22 violent and 201 property, as reported to the FBI by North Salt Lake’s police.
Four people died in crashes on North Salt Lake’s roads in 2019–2023
North Salt Lake had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died. Most of these deaths (2 of 4) 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 North Salt Lake’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so North Salt Lake’s own rate (3.4) 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.
North Salt Lake and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Salt Lake | B | 0.8 | 10.0 |
| Bountiful | — | — | — |
| Woods Cross | B− | 1.4 | 13.9 |
| Salt Lake City | D− | 8.6 | 51.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Bountiful has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Utah towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Salt Lake | B | 0.8 | 10.0 |
| North Ogden | A− | 0.9 | 5.1 |
| Payson | B+ | 1.2 | 6.3 |
| Farmington | B+ | 0.6 | 10.6 |
| Hurricane | B− | 1.9 | 9.4 |
| South Salt Lake | D− | 7.1 | 52.1 |
The five graded Utah towns closest to North Salt Lake’s population (23,588), 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 North Salt Lake. 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 North Salt Lake’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (23,721 in 2025); our figure for North Salt Lake is 23,588 (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 North Salt Lake
Is North Salt Lake, UT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, North Salt Lake reports less crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #19 of 62 in Utah. Its police reported 0.8 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 North Salt Lake?
0.8 violent and 10.0 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 North Salt Lake safer than Woods Cross?
Woods Cross reports more crime per resident than North Salt Lake: Woods Cross grades B− for safety and North Salt Lake B. Woods Cross’s police reported 1.4 violent and 13.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices North Salt Lake?
North Salt Lake’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “North Salt Lake”. 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.