Cedar Rapids, IA has a C safety grade (50/100) with a violent crime rate of 262 per 100,000, 26% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Cedar Rapids, IA Crime Rate & Safety
At 135,363 residents, Cedar Rapids is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against IA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Cedar Rapids, IA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 26% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cedar Rapids, IA shows violent crime at 261.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,689.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 26% below 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.
C safety grade
261.5/100K violent
2689.1/100K property
-26% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cedar Rapids, IA
Comparable rate records
Cedar Rapids's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Iowa cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cedar Rapids's 261.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Centerville (263.0), Clear Lake (252.1), Creston (272.3), Indianola (273.2). 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
Cedar Rapids sits mid-pack among comparable Iowa cities
At 261.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cedar Rapids ranks 44 of 148 — above 104 of the 147 other Iowa cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +83.2% against the cohort median of 142.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.9% of the 3,994 Part I offenses reported in Cedar Rapids for 2024, against a median of 15.9% across comparable Iowa cities — a gap of 7.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 324.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 261.5 in 2024 (-19.4%). The highest observed value was 350.2 in 2021 and the lowest 261.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Cedar Rapids'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.
Cedar Rapids's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 74.6 Census sq mi, Cedar Rapids logged 48.8 property and 4.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cedar Rapids's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 3,994 offenses; mix index 5,769).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (74.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-14%
304.2 → 261.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8.4%
2936.4 → 2689.1/100K
Property offenses lead Cedar Rapids's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IA
Property Crime
3,640
2689.1
1286.3
Larceny-Theft
2,982
2203
-
Burglary
371
274.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
287
212
-
Arson
9
6.6
-
Violent Crime
354
261.5
238.5
Aggravated Assault
297
219.4
-
Robbery
41
30.3
-
Rape
15
11.1
-
Murder
1
0.7
-
Cedar Rapids Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Cedar Rapids property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Cedar Rapids Police Department
Reporting agency for Cedar Rapids NIBRS-participating
Cedar Rapids Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cedar Rapids's 3,994 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Iowa
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Iowa cities closest to Cedar Rapids in population. Their populations run from 62,269 to 99,926, against 135,363 here. Or use our
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Cedar Rapids at 261.5/100K violent and 2,689.1/100K property - matched below outside Iowa (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Cedar Rapids reported 354 violent crimes and 3,640 property crimes, for a total of 3,994 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Cedar Rapids?
From 2023 to 2024, Cedar Rapids's violent crime rate decreased by 14%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.4%.
What is the most common crime in Cedar Rapids?
The most common crime type in Cedar Rapids is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.7% of all reported crimes (2,982 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Cedar Rapids'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cedar Rapids, IA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.