Glenwood, IA has a A safety grade (88/100) with a violent crime rate of 58 per 100,000, 84% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Glenwood is a small municipal reporter (5,218 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Glenwood, IA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 84% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Glenwood, IA shows violent crime at 57.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 670.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 84% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Glenwood reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,218. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 314.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 57.5 in 2024 (-81.7%). The highest observed value was 346.5 in 2022 and the lowest 57.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Glenwood's 57.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Prairie City (58.2), Story City (58.8), Durant (55.7), Van Meter (55.2). 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
At 57.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Glenwood ranks 121 of 148 — above 27 of the 147 other Iowa cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -60.7% against the cohort median of 146.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.9% of the 38 Part I offenses reported in Glenwood for 2024, against a median of 15.9% across comparable Iowa cities — a gap of 8.0 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.7% of reported property offenses in Glenwood, against a cohort median of 76.8%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Glenwood'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 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,218. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.9 Census sq mi, Glenwood logged 12 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Glenwood's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 38 offenses; mix index 4,252).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Glenwood offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 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 | 35 | 670.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 23 | 440.8 |
| Burglary | 8 | 153.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 76.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 57.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 38.3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 19.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
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 | 5,402 | 314.7 | 1555 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,260 | 209.1 | 950.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,195 | 346.5 | 924 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,182 | 250.9 | 849.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,218 | 57.5 | 670.8 |
Glenwood Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Glenwood's 38 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 Iowa cities closest to Glenwood in population. Their populations run from 5,158 to 5,417, against 5,218 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Glenwood sits at 57.5/100K violent (grade A); the Iowa cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Glenwood reported 3 violent crimes and 35 property crimes, for a total of 38 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Glenwood's violent crime rate decreased by 77.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21%.
The most common crime type in Glenwood is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.5% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Glenwood is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Glenwood's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Glenwood, IA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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