Sisseton, SD has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 208 per 100,000, 41% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Sisseton's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,401). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to SD and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sisseton, SD carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 41% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sisseton, SD shows violent crime at 208.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 708 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 41% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 83.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 208.2 in 2024 (+149.1%). The highest observed value was 418.6 in 2022 and the lowest 83.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Sisseton reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,401. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sisseton's 208.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whitewood (207.9), North Sioux City (196.8), Beresford (192.4), Hot Springs (189.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 52.9% of reported property offenses in Sisseton, against a cohort median of 79.4%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.7% of the 22 Part I offenses reported in Sisseton for 2024, against a median of 15.9% across comparable South Dakota cities — a gap of 6.8 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 208.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sisseton ranks 18 of 39 — above 21 of the 38 other South Dakota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +7.0% 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.
Property counts dominate Sisseton'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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,401. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1.6 Census sq mi, Sisseton logged 10.7 property and 3.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sisseton leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,645.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Sisseton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 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 | 17 | 708 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9 | 374.8 |
| Burglary | 5 | 208.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 124.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 208.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 124.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 83.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2023 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 | 2,392 | 83.6 | 334.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,360 | 296.6 | 381.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,389 | 418.6 | 83.7 |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 2,384 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,401 | 208.2 | 708 |
Sisseton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sisseton's 22 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 South Dakota cities closest to Sisseton in population. Their populations run from 2,054 to 3,049, against 2,401 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Sisseton reported 5 violent crimes and 17 property crimes, for a total of 22 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sisseton's violent crime rate increased by 148.2%.
The most common crime type in Sisseton is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.9% of all reported crimes (9 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Sisseton's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Sisseton's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sisseton, SD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Sisseton is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,401 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.