Centerville, SD has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 517 per 100,000, 47% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Centerville's UCR row covers a small municipal population (968). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to SD and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Centerville, SD carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 47% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Centerville, SD shows violent crime at 516.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 516.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% 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.
Small-count caution
Centerville reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 968. 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 50.0% of the 10 Part I offenses reported in Centerville for 2024, against a median of 15.9% across comparable South Dakota cities — a gap of 34.1 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 516.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Centerville ranks 5 of 39 — above 34 of the 38 other South Dakota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +165.4% against the cohort median of 194.6. 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 Centerville's 516.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pierre (506.4), Sioux Falls (526.7), Chamberlain (440.5), Wagner (639.7). 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.
Centerville's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 968. 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 0.7 Census sq mi, Centerville logged 6.9 property and 6.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Centerville leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,800.
Violent offenses are 50% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Centerville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.7 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 | 5 | 516.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 413.2 |
| Burglary | 1 | 103.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 516.5 |
| Murder | 3 | 309.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 103.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 103.3 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 870 | 0 | 114.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 868 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 929 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 957 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 968 | 516.5 | 516.5 |
Centerville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Centerville's 10 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 South Dakota cities closest to Centerville in population. Their populations run from 440 to 1,413, against 968 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Centerville reported 5 violent crimes and 5 property crimes, for a total of 10 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Centerville's violent crime rate data is unavailable.
The most common crime type in Centerville is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.0% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Centerville'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 Centerville's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Centerville, SD 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. Centerville is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (968 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.