Greenfield, IA has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 346 per 100,000, 2% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Greenfield's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,024). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to IA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Greenfield, IA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 2% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greenfield, IA shows violent crime at 345.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 296.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 53.8% of the 13 Part I offenses reported in Greenfield for 2024, against a median of 15.8% across comparable Iowa cities — a gap of 38.1 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.
Small-count caution
Greenfield reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,024. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greenfield's 345.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mar-Mac (346.3), Spirit Lake (341.9), Hiawatha (359.6), Clinton (359.9). 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 345.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greenfield ranks 25 of 148 — above 123 of the 147 other Iowa cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +142.3% 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.
Greenfield'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 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,024. 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 1.8 Census sq mi, Greenfield logged 3.3 property and 3.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Greenfield leans on aggravated assault at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,728.
Violent offenses are 54% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Greenfield offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 7 | 345.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 296.4 |
| Rape | 1 | 49.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 6 | 296.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 5 | 247 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 49.4 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,073 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,090 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,056 | 48.6 | 583.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,024 | 345.8 | 296.4 |
Greenfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Greenfield's 13 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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 Greenfield in population. Their populations run from 1,812 to 2,190, against 2,024 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Greenfield reported 7 violent crimes and 6 property crimes, for a total of 13 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Greenfield's violent crime rate increased by 611.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 49.2%.
The most common crime type in Greenfield is aggravated assault, accounting for 46.2% of all reported crimes (6 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Greenfield'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 Greenfield's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Greenfield, IA 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. Greenfield is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,024 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.