Sioux Falls, SD has a F safety grade (22/100) with a violent crime rate of 527 per 100,000, 50% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 210,926 residents, Sioux Falls is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against SD and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sioux Falls, SD carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 50% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sioux Falls, SD shows violent crime at 526.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,915.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 7,260 Part I offenses reported here are 48.7% of the 14,922 reported across all 39 comparable South Dakota 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 210,926 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 526.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sioux Falls ranks 4 of 39 — above 35 of the 38 other South Dakota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +170.7% against the cohort median of 194.6. 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 Falls's 526.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Centerville (516.5), Pierre (506.4), Chamberlain (440.5), Wagner (639.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 597.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 526.7 in 2024 (-11.8%). The highest observed value was 597.2 in 2020 and the lowest 435.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Sioux 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.
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 83.6 Census sq mi, Sioux Falls logged 73.6 property and 13.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sioux Falls's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 7,260 offenses; mix index 4,401).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Sioux Falls offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (83.6 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 | 6,149 | 2915.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4,587 | 2174.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 923 | 437.6 |
| Burglary | 639 | 302.9 |
| Arson | 25 | 11.9 |
| Violent Crime | 1,111 | 526.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 938 | 444.7 |
| Robbery | 100 | 47.4 |
| Rape | 59 | 28 |
| Murder | 14 | 6.6 |
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 | 187,370 | 597.2 | 3153.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 191,508 | 538.4 | 2910.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 199,879 | 546.3 | 3100.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 206,559 | 435.2 | 2436.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 210,926 | 526.7 | 2915.2 |
Sioux Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sioux Falls's 7,260 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 South Dakota cities closest to Sioux Falls in population. Their populations run from 14,589 to 80,957, against 210,926 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sioux Falls sits at 526.7/100K violent (grade F); the South Dakota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Sioux Falls at 526.7/100K violent and 2,915.2/100K property - matched below outside South Dakota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
526.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,915.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+21% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Sioux Falls reported 1,111 violent crimes and 6,149 property crimes, for a total of 7,260 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sioux Falls's violent crime rate increased by 21%, and the property crime rate increased by 19.6%.
The most common crime type in Sioux Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.2% of all reported crimes (4,587 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Sioux Falls'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 Falls's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sioux Falls, SD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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