Idaho Falls, ID has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 357 per 100,000, 1% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 68,716 residents, Idaho Falls is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against ID and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Idaho Falls, ID carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 1% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Idaho Falls, ID shows violent crime at 356.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,209.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% 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 356.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Idaho Falls ranks 7 of 55 — above 48 of the 54 other Idaho cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +85.2% against the cohort median of 192.6. 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 Idaho Falls's 356.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Nampa (353.1), Heyburn (348.2), Emmett (342.2), Pocatello (341.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 466.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 356.5 in 2024 (-23.6%). The highest observed value was 466.5 in 2020 and the lowest 326.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 64.0% of reported property offenses in Idaho Falls, against a cohort median of 77.0%. The remainder is burglary (212) and motor vehicle theft (87). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Idaho Falls'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 27.2 Census sq mi, Idaho Falls logged 30.6 property and 9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Idaho Falls leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,218.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Idaho Falls offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27.2 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 | 831 | 1209.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 532 | 774.2 |
| Burglary | 212 | 308.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 87 | 126.6 |
| Arson | 4 | 5.8 |
| Violent Crime | 245 | 356.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 186 | 270.7 |
| Rape | 49 | 71.3 |
| Robbery | 7 | 10.2 |
| Murder | 3 | 4.4 |
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 | 63,457 | 466.5 | 1848.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 64,792 | 368.9 | 1557.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 68,162 | 359.4 | 1393.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 68,662 | 326.2 | 1431.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 68,716 | 356.5 | 1209.3 |
Idaho Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Idaho Falls's 1,076 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 Idaho cities closest to Idaho Falls in population. Their populations run from 26,684 to 71,115, against 68,716 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Idaho Falls sits at 356.5/100K violent (grade C); the Idaho cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Idaho Falls at 356.5/100K violent and 1,209.3/100K property - matched below outside Idaho (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
356.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,209.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+9.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Idaho Falls reported 245 violent crimes and 831 property crimes, for a total of 1,076 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Idaho Falls's violent crime rate increased by 9.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.5%.
The most common crime type in Idaho Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.4% of all reported crimes (532 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Idaho Falls'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 Idaho Falls's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Idaho Falls, ID rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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