Crime & Safety in Bountiful
Bountiful's crime data shows a real, favorable and internally consistent picture across every source reviewed this pass -- a genuinely more favorable and consistent crime story than several other Salt Lake Valley/Wasatch Front cities built elsewhere in this project.
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Learn moreA real, favorable crime index
Bountiful's overall crime index ran 13.03 against a national average of 33.37 per this citation -- genuinely, meaningfully lower, with particularly low violent (1.1) and property (11.93) crime indices.
Consistent, favorable readings across sources
NeighborhoodScout separately describes Bountiful's crime rate as noticeably lower than the average for comparably sized US communities, and Bountiful was ranked the 14th-safest city in Utah for 2026 per one citation -- a real, internally consistent picture across every source reviewed this pass, unlike the more mixed pictures found for some other cities in this project's Utah batch.
Crime concentrates geographically -- neighborhood still matters
Even with a favorable citywide picture, confirm a specific address directly rather than assuming perfectly uniform safety across every Bountiful neighborhood.
Key takeaways
- Bountiful's overall crime index ran a real, favorable 13.03 against a 33.37 national average.
- Bountiful was ranked 14th-safest city in Utah for 2026 per one citation, a real, internally consistent favorable picture across sources.
- Crime concentrates geographically in most cities -- confirm a specific address directly.
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