Blackfoot, ID has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 288 per 100,000, 18% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Blackfoot (13,196 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then ID and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Blackfoot, ID carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 18% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blackfoot, ID shows violent crime at 288 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 909.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B 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 Blackfoot's 288.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Boise (293.8), Kellogg (280.6), Payette (295.8), St. Maries (278.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 288.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blackfoot ranks 15 of 55 — above 40 of the 54 other Idaho cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +49.6% against the cohort median of 192.6. 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 65.8% of reported property offenses in Blackfoot, against a cohort median of 77.0%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (9). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 324.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 288.0 in 2024 (-11.1%). The highest observed value was 372.7 in 2023 and the lowest 288.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Blackfoot'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 6.1 Census sq mi, Blackfoot logged 19.5 property and 6.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Blackfoot leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,436.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Blackfoot offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.1 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 | 120 | 909.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 79 | 598.7 |
| Burglary | 32 | 242.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 68.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 7.6 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 288 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 265.2 |
| Rape | 2 | 15.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 7.6 |
| 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 | 12,036 | 324 | 2251.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,026 | 299.4 | 1671.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,437 | 345.7 | 2251.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,880 | 372.7 | 1009.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,196 | 288 | 909.4 |
Blackfoot Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Blackfoot's 158 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 Idaho cities closest to Blackfoot in population. Their populations run from 10,039 to 16,927, against 13,196 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Blackfoot sits at 288/100K violent (grade B); the Idaho cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Blackfoot at 288/100K violent and 909.4/100K property - matched below outside Idaho (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
288/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
909.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Blackfoot reported 38 violent crimes and 120 property crimes, for a total of 158 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Blackfoot's violent crime rate decreased by 22.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.9%.
The most common crime type in Blackfoot is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (79 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Blackfoot figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Blackfoot's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blackfoot, ID 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. Blackfoot is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,196 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.