Buying in Box Elder County, Utah

Box Elder County at a glance

Box Elder County is one of 29 counties and county-equivalents in Utah. Its county seat is Brigham City. County government publishes its offices and parcel tools online. Official county website. Its 2024 Census Bureau population estimate is 64,120 across 5,746 square miles of land — about 11 people per square mile. In the FBI's 2024 reported-crime file, agencies here reported 599 offenses — 9.34 per 1,000 residents; the breakdown is below.

Records to check before you buy in Box Elder County

• Property record card — the Box Elder County assessor / appraisal office. Pull the parcel's assessed-value history, exemption status, and last sale. This is the file your future tax bill is calculated from, and it shows whether the current owner is enjoying exemptions you will not inherit. County government sits in Brigham City; the official county website is the reliable route to the parcel search and the office directory.
• Deeds & liens — the Box Elder County recorder / land-records office. Read the deed chain, open liens, easements, and plat maps — the file a listing never mentions.
• Official flood determination. Check the exact parcel on FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer — not the listing site's licensed model. Zone boundaries cut through streets; the house next door can be in a different zone. Box Elder County is the primary county for 18 ZIP codes in the Census Bureau's ZIP-to-county crosswalk — and zone lines ignore every one of them.
• The county's reported-crime record. In the FBI's 2024 file, agencies in Box Elder County reported 599 offenses — 9.34 per 1,000 residents; the largest single category was larceny-theft (372). The crime section below sets that beside the Utah county median.
• Registry check. Run the address through Utah Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry (Utah Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Identification) and note the counts within a mile — then check again the week you close.
• Permits & code history — the Box Elder building department. Open permits, expired permits, and code cases tell you whether the renovation in the photos was ever inspected. County permitting is run out of Brigham City.
• School assignment — the district office, not the listing. Only the district's own boundary lookup confirms which school an address is actually zoned for.

County list, land area and population: U.S. Census Bureau (population: 2024 PEP estimate). County seat and official website: Wikidata (CC0), checked 2026-11-04. Flood determinations: FEMA. Registry: Utah.

Reported crime in Box Elder County — FBI 2024

Agencies in Box Elder County reported 599 offenses to the FBI in 2024 — 97 violent and 502 property offenses. That works out to a reported-crime rate of 9.34 per 1,000 residents (violent 151.3, property 782.9 per 100,000).

Inside Utah, the median county in the same file recorded a violent-crime rate of 142 per 100,000 and a property-crime rate of 820 per 100,000 (medians computed from the FBI 2024 county file across 29 counties).

The largest reported categories were larceny-theft (372), burglary (101) and aggravated assault (52).

Coverage: 7 of 7 law-enforcement agencies assigned to this county reported at least one month of 2024 offense data to the FBI; 6 reported all 12 months. Counts are reported offenses only (FBI Return A / Arson master files), assigned whole to each agency's primary county; they are not adjusted for non-reporting agencies.

These are offenses reported to law enforcement — not convictions, and not a verdict on any street or address. A CurbFacts report pairs this county record with the ZIP-level picture for the specific address you are buying.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, UCR Return A + Arson master files, data year 2024 (pulled 2026-11-04).

The Utah rules that apply in Box Elder County

Traps researched for Utah buyers: Second homes and short-term rentals lose the 45% break; Meth disclosure is statutory, the rest mostly is not.

Read the full Utah guide — disclosure standard, tax math, registry and flood

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