Sioux City, IA has a F safety grade (16/100) with a violent crime rate of 555 per 100,000, 58% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 85,711 residents, Sioux City is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against IA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sioux City, IA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 58% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sioux City, IA shows violent crime at 555.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,324 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 555.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sioux City ranks 9 of 148 — above 139 of the 147 other Iowa cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +289.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sioux City's 555.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carter Lake (560.1), Albia (576.9), Davenport (581.4), Sabula (612.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 582.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 555.4 in 2024 (-4.6%). The highest observed value was 582.1 in 2020 and the lowest 528.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Sioux City'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 59.2 Census sq mi, Sioux City logged 48.2 property and 8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sioux City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 3,325 offenses; mix index 4,649).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sioux City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (59.2 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 | 2,849 | 3324 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,190 | 2555.1 |
| Burglary | 407 | 474.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 252 | 294 |
| Arson | 20 | 23.3 |
| Violent Crime | 476 | 555.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 319 | 372.2 |
| Robbery | 82 | 95.7 |
| Rape | 72 | 84 |
| Murder | 3 | 3.5 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 82,628 | 582.1 | 3307.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 82,750 | 581.3 | 3084 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 85,580 | 528.2 | 3005.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 85,365 | 577.5 | 3596.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 85,711 | 555.4 | 3324 |
Sioux City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sioux City's 3,325 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 Sioux City in population. Their populations run from 58,620 to 99,926, against 85,711 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sioux City sits at 555.4/100K violent (grade F); the Iowa cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Sioux City at 555.4/100K violent and 3,324/100K property - matched below outside Iowa (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
555.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,324/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-3.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Sioux City reported 476 violent crimes and 2,849 property crimes, for a total of 3,325 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sioux City's violent crime rate decreased by 3.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.6%.
The most common crime type in Sioux City is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.9% of all reported crimes (2,190 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Sioux City'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 Sioux City's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sioux City, IA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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