Muscatine, IA has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 246 per 100,000, 30% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Muscatine (23,208 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Muscatine, IA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 30% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Muscatine, IA shows violent crime at 245.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,228 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Muscatine's 245.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Maquoketa (248.8), DeWitt (249.5), Clear Lake (252.1), Cedar Rapids (261.5). 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 245.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Muscatine ranks 48 of 148 — above 100 of the 147 other Iowa cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +72.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 283.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 245.6 in 2024 (-13.4%). The highest observed value was 366.0 in 2021 and the lowest 245.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Muscatine'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 18.2 Census sq mi, Muscatine logged 15.7 property and 3.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Muscatine leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,864.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Muscatine offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.2 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 | 285 | 1228 |
| Larceny-Theft | 197 | 848.8 |
| Burglary | 55 | 237 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 33 | 142.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 57 | 245.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 47 | 202.5 |
| Rape | 7 | 30.2 |
| Robbery | 3 | 12.9 |
| 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 | 23,616 | 283.7 | 1782.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,499 | 366 | 1706.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,237 | 357.2 | 1682.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,250 | 314 | 1195.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,208 | 245.6 | 1228 |
Muscatine Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Muscatine's 342 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 Muscatine in population. Their populations run from 21,635 to 25,185, against 23,208 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Muscatine sits at 245.6/100K violent (grade B); the Iowa cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Muscatine at 245.6/100K violent and 1,228/100K property - matched below outside Iowa (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
245.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,228/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Muscatine reported 57 violent crimes and 285 property crimes, for a total of 342 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Muscatine's violent crime rate decreased by 21.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.7%.
The most common crime type in Muscatine is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.6% of all reported crimes (197 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Muscatine figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Muscatine's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Muscatine, 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. Muscatine is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,208 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.