Boise, ID has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 294 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 235,223 residents, Boise is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against ID and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Boise, ID carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Boise, ID shows violent crime at 293.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,110 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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 Boise's 293.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Payette (295.8), Blackfoot (288.0), Kellogg (280.6), 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 293.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Boise ranks 14 of 55 — above 41 of the 54 other Idaho cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +52.6% 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 3,302 Part I offenses reported here are 23.0% of the 14,384 reported across all 55 comparable Idaho cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 235,223 rather than as a uniform shift.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 318.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 293.8 in 2024 (-7.7%). The highest observed value was 318.3 in 2020 and the lowest 263.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Boise'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.
Boise's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 3,302 offenses; mix index 4,252).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Boise offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 2,611 | 1110 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,053 | 872.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 306 | 130.1 |
| Burglary | 252 | 107.1 |
| Arson | 28 | 11.9 |
| Violent Crime | 691 | 293.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 484 | 205.8 |
| Rape | 167 | 71 |
| Robbery | 37 | 15.7 |
| Murder | 3 | 1.3 |
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 | 231,223 | 318.3 | 1690.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 231,902 | 317.4 | 1370.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 239,074 | 263.1 | 1225.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 236,949 | 281.1 | 1268.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 235,223 | 293.8 | 1110 |
Boise Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Boise's 3,302 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 Boise in population. Their populations run from 46,835 to 140,353, against 235,223 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Boise sits at 293.8/100K violent (grade B); the Idaho cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Boise at 293.8/100K violent and 1,110/100K property - matched below outside Idaho (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
293.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,110/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+4.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Boise reported 691 violent crimes and 2,611 property crimes, for a total of 3,302 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Boise's violent crime rate increased by 4.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.5%.
The most common crime type in Boise is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.2% of all reported crimes (2,053 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Boise'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 Boise's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Boise, 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. Boise is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (235,223 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.