Post Falls, ID has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 152 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Post Falls (46,835 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then ID and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Post Falls, ID carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Post Falls, ID shows violent crime at 151.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 642.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 61.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 151.6 in 2024 (+146.0%). The highest observed value was 205.2 in 2022 and the lowest 61.6 in 2020. 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 Post Falls's 151.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Meridian (146.8), St. Anthony (169.2), Middleton (129.9), Rigby (173.7). 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 151.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Post Falls ranks 34 of 55 — above 21 of the 54 other Idaho cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -23.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.1% of the 372 Part I offenses reported in Post Falls for 2024, against a median of 22.5% across comparable Idaho cities — a gap of 3.4 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Post 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 19.1 Census sq mi, Post Falls logged 15.7 property and 3.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Post Falls's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 372 offenses; mix index 4,522).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Post Falls offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (19.1 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 | 301 | 642.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 238 | 508.2 |
| Burglary | 41 | 87.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 22 | 47 |
| Arson | 1 | 2.1 |
| Violent Crime | 71 | 151.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 61 | 130.2 |
| Robbery | 5 | 10.7 |
| Rape | 4 | 8.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.1 |
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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 37,317 | 61.6 | 329.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 40,252 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 46,306 | 205.2 | 1081.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 46,927 | 151.3 | 931.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 46,835 | 151.6 | 642.7 |
Post Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Post Falls's 372 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 Idaho cities closest to Post Falls in population. Their populations run from 26,684 to 71,115, against 46,835 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Post Falls sits at 151.6/100K violent (grade A); the Idaho cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Post Falls at 151.6/100K violent and 642.7/100K property - matched below outside Idaho (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
151.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
642.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+0.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Post Falls reported 71 violent crimes and 301 property crimes, for a total of 372 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Post Falls's violent crime rate increased by 0.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31%.
The most common crime type in Post Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.0% of all reported crimes (238 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Post Falls 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 Post Falls's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Post Falls, ID rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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