Grand Island, NE has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 368 per 100,000, 4% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 52,488 residents, Grand Island is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NE and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Grand Island, NE carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 4% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grand Island, NE shows violent crime at 367.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,760.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 4% 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 367.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grand Island ranks 4 of 47 — above 43 of the 46 other Nebraska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +195.9% 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 Grand Island's 367.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Omaha (369.0), Lincoln (347.9), Waterloo (332.2), Hastings (318.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.3% of the 1,117 Part I offenses reported in Grand Island for 2024, against a median of 10.7% across comparable Nebraska cities — a gap of 6.6 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 419.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 367.7 in 2024 (-12.3%). The highest observed value was 419.0 in 2020 and the lowest 335.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Grand Island'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 30.1 Census sq mi, Grand Island logged 30.7 property and 6.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Grand Island's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 1,117 offenses; mix index 4,766).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Grand Island offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (30.1 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 | 924 | 1760.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 745 | 1419.4 |
| Burglary | 127 | 242 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 52 | 99.1 |
| Arson | 6 | 11.4 |
| Violent Crime | 193 | 367.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 138 | 262.9 |
| Rape | 38 | 72.4 |
| Robbery | 17 | 32.4 |
| Murder | 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 | 51,547 | 419 | 2459.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 51,226 | 335.8 | 2094.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 51,733 | 405.9 | 2592.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 52,264 | 413.3 | 2089.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 52,488 | 367.7 | 1760.4 |
Grand Island Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Grand Island's 1,117 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 Grand Island in population. Their populations run from 22,268 to 63,510, against 52,488 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Grand Island sits at 367.7/100K violent (grade C); the Nebraska cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Grand Island at 367.7/100K violent and 1,760.4/100K property - matched below outside Nebraska (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
367.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,760.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-11% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Grand Island reported 193 violent crimes and 924 property crimes, for a total of 1,117 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Grand Island's violent crime rate decreased by 11%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.7%.
The most common crime type in Grand Island is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.7% of all reported crimes (745 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Grand Island'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 Grand Island's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Grand Island, NE rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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