Omaha, NE has a D safety grade (36/100) with a violent crime rate of 369 per 100,000, 5% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 480,235 residents, Omaha is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NE and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Omaha, NE carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 5% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Omaha, NE shows violent crime at 369 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,161.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Share of the state cohort
The 16,956 Part I offenses reported here are 51.0% of the 33,262 reported across all 47 comparable Nebraska cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 480,235 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 369.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Omaha ranks 3 of 47 — above 44 of the 46 other Nebraska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +196.9% against the cohort median of 124.3. 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 Omaha's 369.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Grand Island (367.7), Lincoln (347.9), Waterloo (332.2), Hastings (318.4). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 631.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 369.0 in 2024 (-41.5%). The highest observed value was 631.3 in 2020 and the lowest 164.9 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 71.6% of reported property offenses in Omaha, against a cohort median of 83.3%. The remainder is burglary (1,133) and motor vehicle theft (3,177). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Omaha'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 142.9 Census sq mi, Omaha logged 106.2 property and 12.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Omaha's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 16,956 offenses; mix index 4,572).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Omaha offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (142.9 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 | 15,184 | 3161.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 10,874 | 2264.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3,177 | 661.6 |
| Burglary | 1,133 | 235.9 |
| Arson | 88 | 18.3 |
| Violent Crime | 1,772 | 369 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,306 | 272 |
| Robbery | 225 | 46.9 |
| Rape | 222 | 46.2 |
| Murder | 19 | 4 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 480,297 | 631.3 | 3174.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 480,307 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 483,462 | 561.2 | 3468.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 481,471 | 164.9 | 1678.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 480,235 | 369 | 3161.8 |
Omaha Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Omaha's 16,956 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Nebraska cities closest to Omaha in population. Their populations run from 24,595 to 295,808, against 480,235 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Omaha sits at 369/100K violent (grade D); the Nebraska cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Omaha at 369/100K violent and 3,161.8/100K property - matched below outside Nebraska (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
369/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,161.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+123.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Omaha reported 1,772 violent crimes and 15,184 property crimes, for a total of 16,956 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Omaha's violent crime rate increased by 123.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 88.3%.
The most common crime type in Omaha is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.1% of all reported crimes (10,874 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Omaha'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 (very 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 Omaha's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Omaha, NE rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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