Photo: Scott Catron from Sandy, Utah, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Reported crime per resident in Sandy fell 24% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Sandy grades C for safety (#50 of 62 graded towns in Utah): more crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Sandy
4 of the 4 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 Utah towns on Sandy’s borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: South Jordan (B), Draper (B−), Cottonwood Heights (B−), West Jordan (C). Midvale has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
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 Sandy’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.0) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Utah.
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| Year | Sandy property | Rest of Utah property | Sandy violent | Rest of Utah violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24.9 | 17.9 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 18.6 | 15.8 | 2.1 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 18.1 | 14.1 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Sandy’s police reported 540 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the rest of Utah and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Sandy | Rest of Utah | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
1,861 crimes reported in 2025
203 violent and 1,658 property, as reported to the FBI by Sandy’s police.
2025 offenses reported
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.
18 people died in crashes on Sandy’s roads in 2019–2023
Sandy had 18 fatal crashes in five years, in which 18 people died; 2 were pedestrians. 3 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 3.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Utah towns of 25,000–100,000 people (3.8, 34 towns).
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.
Sandy and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy | C | 2.0 | 20.5 |
| Midvale | — | — | — |
| Cottonwood Heights | B− | 0.7 | 16.5 |
| Draper | B− | 1.7 | 12.0 |
| South Jordan | B | 1.0 | 9.7 |
| West Jordan | C | 3.1 | 14.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Midvale has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
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 Sandy. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Sandy’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (91,841 in 2025); our figure for Sandy is 92,386 (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 Sandy
Is Sandy, UT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Sandy reports more crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #50 of 62 in Utah. Its police reported 2.0 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 Sandy?
2.0 violent and 20.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Utah reports 2.5 and 15.9; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Sandy?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Sandy in 2025?
Sandy’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.1 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Sandy safer than Cottonwood Heights?
Cottonwood Heights reports less crime per resident than Sandy: Cottonwood Heights grades B− for safety and Sandy C. Cottonwood Heights’s police reported 0.7 violent and 16.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Sandy?
Sandy’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sandy 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.