Albia, IA has a D safety grade (38/100) with a violent crime rate of 577 per 100,000, 64% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Albia is a small municipal reporter (3,640 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Albia, IA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 64% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Albia, IA shows violent crime at 576.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 522 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 64% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 52.5% of the 40 Part I offenses reported in Albia for 2024, against a median of 15.8% across comparable Iowa cities — a gap of 36.7 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Small-count caution
Albia reported 21 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,640. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 576.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Albia ranks 7 of 148 — above 141 of the 147 other Iowa cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +304.2% against the cohort median of 142.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 26.3% of reported property offenses in Albia, against a cohort median of 76.8%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Albia's 576.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Davenport (581.4), Carter Lake (560.1), Sioux City (555.4), Sabula (612.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 490.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 576.9 in 2024 (+17.6%). The highest observed value was 576.9 in 2024 and the lowest 215.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Albia's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 21 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,640. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.3 Census sq mi, Albia logged 5.8 property and 6.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Albia leans on aggravated assault at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,638.
Violent offenses are 53% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Albia offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 21 | 576.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 21 | 576.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 19 | 522 |
| Burglary | 10 | 274.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 5 | 137.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 109.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,670 | 490.5 | 1743.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,706 | 215.9 | 1187.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,717 | 403.6 | 995.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,671 | 435.8 | 817.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,640 | 576.9 | 522 |
Albia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Albia's 40 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Iowa cities closest to Albia in population. Their populations run from 3,399 to 3,895, against 3,640 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Albia sits at 576.9/100K violent (grade D); the Iowa cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Albia reported 21 violent crimes and 19 property crimes, for a total of 40 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Albia's violent crime rate increased by 32.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 36.1%.
The most common crime type in Albia is aggravated assault, accounting for 52.5% of all reported crimes (21 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Albia is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Albia's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Albia, IA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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