Caldwell, ID has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 453 per 100,000, 29% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 71,115 residents, Caldwell 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
Caldwell, ID carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 29% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Caldwell, ID shows violent crime at 452.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 977.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 452.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Caldwell ranks 4 of 55 — above 51 of the 54 other Idaho cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +135.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Caldwell's 452.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Twin Falls (416.6), Gooding (391.5), Idaho Falls (356.5), Nampa (353.1). 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 338.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 452.8 in 2024 (+33.8%). The highest observed value was 452.8 in 2024 and the lowest 266.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.7% of the 1,017 Part I offenses reported in Caldwell for 2024, against a median of 21.6% across comparable Idaho cities — a gap of 10.1 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.
Property counts dominate Caldwell'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 25.1 Census sq mi, Caldwell logged 27.7 property and 12.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Caldwell leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,473.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Caldwell offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.1 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 | 695 | 977.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 524 | 736.8 |
| Burglary | 105 | 147.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 66 | 92.8 |
| Arson | 4 | 5.6 |
| Violent Crime | 322 | 452.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 256 | 360 |
| Rape | 61 | 85.8 |
| Robbery | 4 | 5.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.4 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 59,987 | 338.4 | 1463.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 62,306 | 266.4 | 934.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 66,940 | 449.7 | 1320.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 68,731 | 427.8 | 784.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 71,115 | 452.8 | 977.3 |
Caldwell Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Caldwell's 1,017 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 Caldwell in population. Their populations run from 26,684 to 68,716, against 71,115 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Caldwell sits at 452.8/100K violent (grade C); the Idaho cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Caldwell at 452.8/100K violent and 977.3/100K property - matched below outside Idaho (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
452.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
977.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+5.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Caldwell reported 322 violent crimes and 695 property crimes, for a total of 1,017 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Caldwell's violent crime rate increased by 5.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 24.6%.
The most common crime type in Caldwell is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.5% of all reported crimes (524 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Caldwell'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 Caldwell's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Caldwell, ID rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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