Provo Utah Crime Rate
Beautiful Provo, Utah is a safe place to live for you and your family. The statistics here speak for themselves. They are based on the 2006 final reports from the FBI Crime Reports. The population area in which these statistics are tabulated was 117,156. To be noted, Utah County (in which Provo is located) has the second lowest violent crime rate per the FBI annual crime report.
Violent crime in Provo averages much less than the national average, with only two murders recorded in the entirety of 2006. Thus Provo has rated a 1.7 average per 100,000 people for the most violent of crimes (murder) when the national average comes in at 7 in 100,000. With violent crime (as a category) being considered murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, the average violent crime statistics of 2006 ranged only 144.2 per 100,000 people, while the national average is 553.5 per 100,000. Property crime also tends to be much lower in Provo than the overall average in the state of Utah.
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