Utah County
759,859 people, served by 21 police agencies that report to the FBI.
How a case moves here
Utah County follows Utah law on arrests, release, and courts. These rules are the same in every county in the state; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- Who decides release first
Before a magistrate acts, a county jail official may release some people on their own recognizance under the sheriff's written policy, or set a capped money bail for most misdemeanors and some third-degree property and fraud felonies. The jail may not do either for violent offenses, domestic violence, or once police submit a probable cause statement. A magistrate then finds probable cause and issues a temporary pretrial status order releasing or holding the person.
Utah Code 77-20-203Utah Code 77-20-204Utah Code 77-20-205- Time to see a judge
After a warrantless arrest, police must give a magistrate a sworn probable cause statement within 24 hours. If the jail has no probable cause finding and pretrial status order 24 hours after booking, it must release the person on recognizance, unless a magistrate grants one 24-hour extension for good cause.
Utah R. Crim. P. 9- Money bail
Utah allows money bail. A magistrate or judge may release on recognizance, set conditions including money bail, or order detention, and jail officials may set money bail only up to fixed caps, such as $5,000 for listed felonies and $1,950 for a class A misdemeanor.
Utah Code 77-20-204Utah Code 77-20-205- Courts
District courts try felonies and class A misdemeanors. Justice courts, which counties and cities set up and fund, hear class B and C misdemeanors, ordinance violations, and infractions. District courts hear appeals from justice courts.
Utah State Courts, Guide to the Utah State CourtsUtah Code 78A-7-106- Judges and magistrates
A nominating commission sends five names to the governor, who appoints a district judge; the state senate must confirm. The judge then faces an unopposed retention election and serves six-year terms. Justice court judges are appointed by the county or city from a local nominating commission's list; those appointed since May 2023 must hold a law degree but need not be admitted to the bar.
Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Judicial Nominating CommissionUtah Code 78A-7-201Utah Code 78A-7-202
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Title 17 was renumbered in the 2025 first special session; county attorney law is now chapter 68 and sheriff law chapter 72. Utah Code 78A-7-106 carries a sunset review flag (63I-1-278) for 2029-07-01; check whether justice courts are restructured. The Salt Lake County district attorney example comes from county practice, not the statute text. Justice court judges seated before May 3, 2023 without a law degree may stay in office.
What this county does differently
- Pretrial practice
Advancing Pretrial lists the whole state as a Public Safety Assessment site since 2018.
Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research, PSA sites list (page modified 2026-06-03)
Cities and towns
- Provo114,766
- Orem97,182
- Lehi85,173
- Eagle Mountain53,290
- Draper50,278
- Saratoga Springs48,425
- Spanish Fork44,946
- Pleasant Grove37,852
- American Fork37,109
- Springville35,849
- Payson23,039
- Highland20,119
- Bluffdale18,797
- Santaquin16,436
- Vineyard town14,446
- Mapleton13,114
- Lindon11,765
- Alpine10,392
- Salem10,324
- Cedar Hills9,950
- Elk Ridge4,898
- Genola town1,842
- Woodland Hills1,559
- Goshen town838
- Fairfield town198
- Cedar Fort town176
Every city, village, town, and township with any of its land in Utah County, largest first. Population, the whole place's: Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.
Police agencies
- Provo Police DepartmentCity police department115,576 served
- Lehi Police DepartmentCity police department98,138 served
- Orem Police DepartmentCity police department96,209 served
- Utah County Sheriff's OfficeSheriff or county police91,797 served
- Saratoga Springs Police DepartmentCity police department63,550 served
- American Fork/Cedar Hills Police DepartmentCity police department53,400 served
- Draper Police DepartmentCity police department49,977 served
- Spanish Fork Police DepartmentCity police department49,165 served
- Pleasant Grove Police DepartmentCity police department38,228 served
- Springville Police DepartmentCity police department36,202 served
- Lone Peak Police DepartmentCity police department32,232 served
- Payson Police DepartmentCity police department25,583 served
- Santaquin/Genola Police DepartmentCity police department21,416 served
- Mapleton Police DepartmentCity police department15,793 served
- Lindon Police DepartmentCity police department12,156 served
- Salem Police DepartmentCity police department11,823 served
- No name UT0251600City police department1,679 served
- Brigham Young UniversityCollege or university police
- Utah County Attorney, Investigations DivisionOther agency
- Utah County Major Crimes Task ForceOther agency
- Utah Valley UniversityCollege or university police
Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29. An agency that serves several counties appears on each. Population served is the FBI's figure.
Crime
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Utah |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 690 | 817 | 835 | 986 | 980 | 123 | 238 |
| Murder | 4 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1.3 | 2.4 |
| Rape | 301 | 349 | 317 | 389 | 415 | 50 | 61 |
| Robbery | 47 | 61 | 53 | 75 | 60 | 8.4 | 28 |
| Aggravated assault | 338 | 393 | 457 | 511 | 498 | 62 | 146 |
| Property crime | 7,166 | 7,791 | 6,954 | 6,279 | 5,614 | 961 | 1,675 |
| Burglary | 702 | 683 | 574 | 476 | 378 | 80 | 180 |
| Larceny | 5,912 | 6,503 | 5,852 | 5,408 | 4,931 | 814 | 1,329 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 552 | 605 | 528 | 395 | 305 | 68 | 166 |
| Arson | 16 | 45 | 35 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 8.1 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Utah |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 15,066 | 18,433 | 18,169 | 17,021 | 16,609 | 2,426 | 3,588 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 2,791 | 3,460 | 3,770 | 3,878 | 3,882 | 506 | 871 |
| Vandalism | 3,052 | 3,206 | 3,057 | 2,914 | 2,532 | 420 | 651 |
| Fraud | 1,465 | 1,913 | 2,108 | 1,843 | 1,763 | 259 | 409 |
| Drug abuse violations | 6,131 | 7,565 | 6,874 | 6,106 | 5,899 | 926 | 1,241 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 485 | 723 | 640 | 625 | 610 | 88 | 123 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 173 | 304 | 308 | 231 | 202 | 35 | 50 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 201 | 193 | 190 | 205 | 156 | 27 | 46 |
| Embezzlement | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0.8 | 2.4 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 484 | 687 | 726 | 605 | 601 | 88 | 101 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 6 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 1.5 | 4.1 |
| Gambling | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 0.2 | |||
| Other Group A offenses | 269 | 365 | 488 | 593 | 942 | 76 | 88 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Human trafficking (not in the total) | 3 | 6 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.7 |
Offenses agencies in Utah County reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the reporting agencies police, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside Utah's rate over the same years. Agencies that reported part of a year are counted with their people, as the state's rates count them. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Utah: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.