With a crime rate of 34 per one thousand residents, Cedar Hills has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 29. Within Utah, more than 95% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Cedar Hills.

Importantly, when you compare Cedar Hills to other communities of similar population, then Cedar Hills crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Cedar Hills does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Cedar Hills does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Cedar Hills.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Cedar Hills occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Cedar Hills; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 498. This equates to a rate of 2 per one thousand inhabitants.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Cedar Hills is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Cedar Hills, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 31, which is a rate of 32 per one thousand population.