North Liberty, IA has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 69 per 100,000, 80% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Liberty (21,635 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
North Liberty, IA carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 80% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Liberty, IA shows violent crime at 69.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 397.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 80% 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.
Small-count caution
North Liberty reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 21,635. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 300.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 69.3 in 2024 (-76.9%). The highest observed value was 300.6 in 2020 and the lowest 69.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Liberty's 69.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Adel (76.0), Johnston (76.6), Vinton (60.5), Lake City (60.5). 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 69.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Liberty ranks 116 of 148 — above 32 of the 147 other Iowa cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -52.6% against the cohort median of 146.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 67.4% of reported property offenses in North Liberty, against a cohort median of 76.8%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (8). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate North Liberty'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.
Based on 15 reported violent incidents in a population of 21,635. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 9.5 Census sq mi, North Liberty logged 9 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Liberty leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,887.
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
North Liberty offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.5 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 | 86 | 397.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 58 | 268.1 |
| Burglary | 20 | 92.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 37 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 15 | 69.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 50.8 |
| Rape | 4 | 18.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 20,294 | 300.6 | 615.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,482 | 234.4 | 400.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,131 | 113.6 | 359.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,865 | 114.3 | 279 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,635 | 69.3 | 397.5 |
North Liberty Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Liberty's 101 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 North Liberty in population. Their populations run from 19,124 to 24,819, against 21,635 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
North Liberty sits at 69.3/100K violent (grade A+); the Iowa cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
North Liberty at 69.3/100K violent and 397.5/100K property - matched below outside Iowa (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
69.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
397.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, North Liberty reported 15 violent crimes and 86 property crimes, for a total of 101 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, North Liberty's violent crime rate decreased by 39.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 42.5%.
The most common crime type in North Liberty is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.4% of all reported crimes (58 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Liberty 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 North Liberty's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Liberty, IA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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