Boys Town, NE has a D safety grade (34/100) with a violent crime rate of 575 per 100,000, 63% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Boys Town's UCR row covers a small municipal population (696). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NE and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Boys Town, NE carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 63% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Boys Town, NE shows violent crime at 574.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,005.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 183.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 574.7 in 2024 (+213.2%). The highest observed value was 1452.8 in 2022 and the lowest 183.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Boys Town reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 696. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 36.4% of the 11 Part I offenses reported in Boys Town for 2024, against a median of 10.7% across comparable Nebraska cities — a gap of 25.6 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 574.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Boys Town ranks 2 of 47 — above 45 of the 46 other Nebraska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +362.4% against the cohort median of 124.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Boys Town's 574.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Scottsbluff (588.0), Omaha (369.0), Grand Island (367.7), Lincoln (347.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Boys Town, against a cohort median of 83.3%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Boys Town'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.
Based on 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 696. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.9 Census sq mi, Boys Town logged 7.7 property and 4.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Boys Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 11 offenses; mix index 4,711).
Violent offenses are 36% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Boys Town offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.9 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 | 7 | 1005.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 7 | 1005.7 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 4 | 574.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 287.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 287.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 545 | 183.5 | 550.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 306 | 980.4 | 326.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 413 | 1452.8 | 2905.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 662 | 604.2 | 1510.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 696 | 574.7 | 1005.7 |
Boys Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Boys Town's 11 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 Boys Town in population. Their populations run from 903 to 3,140, against 696 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Boys Town reported 4 violent crimes and 7 property crimes, for a total of 11 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Boys Town's violent crime rate decreased by 4.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.4%.
The most common crime type in Boys Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.6% of all reported crimes (7 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Boys Town's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Boys Town's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Boys Town, NE rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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