Meridian, ID has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 147 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 140,353 residents, Meridian 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
Meridian, ID carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Meridian, ID shows violent crime at 146.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 571.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Meridian's 146.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Post Falls (151.6), Middleton (129.9), Weiser (129.2), St. Anthony (169.2). 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 146.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Meridian ranks 35 of 55 — above 20 of the 54 other Idaho cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -25.6% against the cohort median of 197.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 174.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 146.8 in 2024 (-15.9%). The highest observed value was 176.7 in 2021 and the lowest 146.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 84.4% of reported property offenses in Meridian, against a cohort median of 75.8%. The remainder is burglary (73) and motor vehicle theft (52). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Meridian'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 37.1 Census sq mi, Meridian logged 21.6 property and 5.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Meridian's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 1,008 offenses; mix index 4,825).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Meridian offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (37.1 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 | 802 | 571.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 677 | 482.4 |
| Burglary | 73 | 52 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 52 | 37 |
| Arson | 6 | 4.3 |
| Violent Crime | 206 | 146.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 148 | 105.4 |
| Rape | 42 | 29.9 |
| Robbery | 15 | 10.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 0.7 |
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 | 119,203 | 174.5 | 858.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 126,744 | 176.7 | 741.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 132,522 | 150.9 | 660.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 135,239 | 170.1 | 505 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 140,353 | 146.8 | 571.4 |
Meridian Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Meridian's 1,008 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 Meridian in population. Their populations run from 46,835 to 235,223, against 140,353 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Meridian sits at 146.8/100K violent (grade A); the Idaho cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Meridian at 146.8/100K violent and 571.4/100K property - matched below outside Idaho (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
146.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
571.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-13.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Meridian reported 206 violent crimes and 802 property crimes, for a total of 1,008 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Meridian's violent crime rate decreased by 13.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.1%.
The most common crime type in Meridian is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.2% of all reported crimes (677 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Meridian'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 Meridian's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Meridian, ID rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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