City Travel Stats

Salt Lake City

United States · North America

67Safety indexLower concern
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions
5/5metric categories covered
Open comparison
40.76°, -111.89°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Salt Lake City scores 67 out of 100 in our index and is safer than about 31% of the cities we rank.

Its homicide rate is 5.2 per 100,000, roughly 3.3 times the median of the cities we track, and this one is a genuine city-level figure with no unit or timing caveats attached. Robbery is recorded at 183.4 per 100,000, also specific to the city. The advisory picture here covers only three governments: Canada, the UK, and Australia each hold the United States at their lowest level, and there is no US self-advisory in the data. A national survey put the share who feel safe walking alone at night at 60%, a country-wide figure rather than one for the city.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime10
Robbery & theft33
Travel advisory0
The radar shows the three sourced, comparable risk measures (homicide, robbery, the strictest travel-advisory level). Tourist petty-crime signals are a different kind of measure — how often advisories mention them — so they are shown as rows under Tourist-specific incidents, not as radar axes.

Homicide / general violence

Intentional homicides (per 100,000)
5.2/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — Salt Lake City Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 30% of tracked cities
5.2/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
183.4/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — Salt Lake City Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 22% of tracked cities
183.4/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

No advisory on record.

Global Affairs Canada
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — United States travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — United States travel advice

Perceived safety

How safe people say they feel, from official population surveys — a separate signal, not part of the Safety Index.
Feel safe walking alone at night
National survey
60%feel safe
60% of people surveyed · United States · 2023
Survey figure is for United States (country), wider than Salt Lake City itself.

Primary source: UN SDG 16.1.4 — feel safe walking alone at night (UNODC)

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.
Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States travel advice (Safety and security)