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In 2022, 242 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in Utah. This is 16 percent higher than the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in Utah in 2022 was 36 percent lower than the United States average.

In 2022, 47 percent of violent crimes reported to police in Utah were not solved. This is 2 percentage points lower than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  Salt Lake City
  • Population:  3,161,105
  • Area:  84,899 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  40th
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Featured Utah Missing Cases

Robert Lugo

Missing: Sep 01, 1986
Robert Lugo, 29, went missing on September 1, 1986, after telling his mother that he was going on a ...Read More

Wayne Buckley

Missing: Jun 07, 2015
Wayne Buckley, a 73-year-old Provo resident, was last seen on the night of June 7, 2015. He dropped ...Read More

Janis Stavros

Missing: Jan 03, 2001
Janis Marie Stavros, aged 42, was last seen on January 3, 2001, in Salt Lake City, Utah, under suspi ...Read More

Sarah Norfleet

Missing: Jun 20, 1993
Sarah Ann Norfleet, an 18-year-old woman from Bountiful, Utah, went missing on June 20, 1993. That e ...Read More

Eva Rodriguez-Flores

Missing: Jul 16, 2022
Eva Raquel Rodriguez-Flores, a 17-year-old, was last seen on July 16, 2022, in West Valley City, Uta ...Read More

Andrei Campana

Missing: Nov 12, 2017
Andrei Campana, a 42-year-old man, was last seen leaving his home in Woods Cross, Utah, on November ...Read More

Vilate Young

Missing: Jul 04, 1956
Vilate Kerreen Young, a 15-month-old toddler, disappeared on July 4, 1956, during a family picnic at ...Read More

Susan Curtis

Missing: Jun 27, 1975
Susan Curtis, a 15-year-old girl from Bountiful, Utah, was last seen on June 27, 1975, while attendi ...Read More

Tobey Baker

Missing: Sep 01, 2011
Tobey Tweedy Baker, a 28-year-old Native American man, was last seen on September 1, 2011, when he c ...Read More

Jacob Petty

Missing: May 08, 2022
Jacob Petty, a 14-year-old boy, was last seen on May 8, 2022, in Beaver County, Utah, alongside his ...Read More
Featured Utah Murder Cases

Herbert J Strehl

Murdered: Dec 03, 2000
Herbert J. Strehl, a 75-year-old German immigrant and businessman from Salt Lake City, Utah, was fou ...Read More

Terry L Bakker

Murdered: Apr 14, 1986
On April 14, 1986, 25-year-old Terry L. Bakker was murdered outside his home in Salt Lake City, Utah ...Read More

Richard Leetham

Murdered: Oct 11, 1994
Richard, age 35, was enrolled as a student at Salt Lake Community College at the time of his disappe ...Read More

Miguel Antonio Hernandez

Murdered: Aug 17, 1982
Miguel Antonio Hernandez, an 18-year-old from El Salvador, was murdered on August 17, 1982, in Salt ...Read More

Julie Ann March

Murdered: Aug 28, 1984
Julie Ann March, 29, was murdered on August 28, 1984, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was last seen the ...Read More

Carrie Wayne

Murdered: Jul 28, 1983
Carrie Anne Wayne, a 28-year-old woman living in Salt Lake City, Utah, was brutally murdered in July ...Read More

Javier Medina

Murdered: Dec 12, 2016
On December 12, 2016, Javier Medina, a 20-year-old man, was shot and killed outside a home on Bendix ...Read More

Frank Saucedo

Murdered: Jan 15, 2008
Frank Saucedo, a 43-year-old man, was tragically shot on January 15, 2008, in what police determined ...Read More

Cody Dodge

Murdered: Sep 22, 2007
Cody Lynn Dodge was found murdered in his West Valley City, Utah, home on September 22, 2007, in a c ...Read More

Jose Venegas

Murdered: Sep 12, 2009
On September 12, 2009, Jose Luis Venegas was shot and killed in his driveway at 3261 West Brookway D ...Read More

Doris Anaid Vazquez Hernandez

Murdered: Dec 25, 2001
Doris, 24 years-old, had moved to the Salt Lake area from Guadalajara, Mexico just 5 months prior to ...Read More