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Salt Lake County Crime Statistics Utah state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 54,761 crimes in Salt Lake County, Utah. With a population of 1,008,983, there was 1 crime for every 18.4 people in the county. Out of the 54,761 crimes reported, 50,763 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 3,998 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	45	4.46
Rape	493	48.86
Robbery	1,062	105.25
Assault	2,398	237.67
Burglary	8,133	806.06
Larceny	36,377	3605.31
Vehicle	6,236	618.05
Arson	17	1.7

The 2007 crime rate was 5,427.3 incidents per 100,000 people. A 0.7% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (5,391.6 incidents). There were 396.2 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a 12.1% change (from 363.9 incidents). Property crimes changed 3.0% from (5,027.6) the previous year to 5,031.1 per 100,000 people.

Salt Lake County ranks #26 for violent crimes and #27 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #2,214 and #2,823 for violent and property related offenses respectively in the nation.

A snapshot of the most current crime statistics are shown in the chart to the left and historical criminal data is shown in the charts below.

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Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	25	2.6	435	44.4	929	94.8	2,178	222.2
2005	31	3.2	463	47.8	784	81.0	2,150	222.2
2004	31	3.3	498	53.0	941	100.1	2,093	222.7
2003	29	3.1	457	49.0	975	104.5	2,106	225.7
2002	25	2.7	462	49.6	879	94.3	1,901	204.0
2001	42	4.6	452	49.5	938	102.7	1,830	200.4
2000	32	3.6	457	50.9	959	106.7	2,178	242.4
1999	32	3.7	452	52.4	896	103.8	2,244	260.0
1998	30	3.5	485	56.6	1,111	129.7	2,739	319.8
1997	38	4.4	498	58.0	1,043	121.5	2,575	300.0
1996	39	4.7	425	51.0	1,067	128.0	2,480	297.4
1995	42	5.2	496	61.0	1,008	123.9	2,334	287.0
1994	42	5.2	465	57.8	915	113.8	2,057	255.8

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	7,536	768.9	35,805	3653.2	5,914	603.4	20	2.0
2005	7,703	796.0	40,366	4171.4	5,917	611.5	18	1.9
2004	7,351	782.3	41,203	4384.8	5,081	540.7	13	1.4
2003	8,273	886.4	40,838	4375.7	5,089	545.3	18	1.9
2002	7,927	850.7	41,511	4454.9	5,283	567.0	24	2.6
2001	7,149	782.9	38,059	4168.0	4,302	471.1	19	2.1
2000	7,660	852.6	40,981	4561.6	4,317	480.5	23	2.6
1999	7,848	909.4	44,312	5134.5	5,048	584.9	23	2.7
1998	9,344	1091.0	47,188	5509.6	5,336	623.0	21	2.5
1997	9,618	1120.4	47,927	5583.1	6,244	727.4	20	2.3
1996	8,720	1045.8	47,449	5690.8	5,860	702.8	22	2.6
1995	8,478	1042.4	50,286	6182.9	5,101	627.2	30	3.7
1994	8,088	1005.6	40,746	5066.1	3,595	447.0	30	3.7

*Crime Rate is based on number of reported cases per 100,000 population