Bellevue, NE has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 99 per 100,000, 72% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 63,510 residents, Bellevue is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NE and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Bellevue, NE carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 72% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bellevue, NE shows violent crime at 99.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,132.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 72% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bellevue's 99.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wahoo (99.2), Cozad (102.1), Ralston (109.8), O'Neill (111.9). 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 189.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 99.2 in 2024 (-47.7%). The highest observed value was 189.7 in 2020 and the lowest 99.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 99.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bellevue ranks 32 of 47 — above 15 of the 46 other Nebraska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -20.4% against the cohort median of 124.6. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Bellevue's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 22.9 Census sq mi, Bellevue logged 31.4 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bellevue's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 782 offenses; mix index 5,666).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Bellevue offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 719 | 1132.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 578 | 910.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 79 | 124.4 |
| Burglary | 62 | 97.6 |
| Arson | 5 | 7.9 |
| Violent Crime | 63 | 99.2 |
| Rape | 46 | 72.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 15.7 |
| Robbery | 7 | 11 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 53,761 | 189.7 | 1489.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 53,436 | 162.8 | 1418.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 63,178 | 186.8 | 1413.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 62,372 | 118.6 | 1614.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 63,510 | 99.2 | 1132.1 |
Bellevue Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bellevue's 782 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 Nebraska cities closest to Bellevue in population. Their populations run from 22,268 to 52,488, against 63,510 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bellevue sits at 99.2/100K violent (grade A); the Nebraska cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Bellevue at 99.2/100K violent and 1,132.1/100K property - matched below outside Nebraska (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
99.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,132.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-16.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Bellevue reported 63 violent crimes and 719 property crimes, for a total of 782 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bellevue's violent crime rate decreased by 16.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.9%.
The most common crime type in Bellevue is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.9% of all reported crimes (578 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bellevue's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Bellevue's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bellevue, NE rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Bellevue is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (63,510 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.