County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led

Custer County, ID

Custer County is a small county (4,275 people) in Idaho. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.

Data updated 2026-09-05

7
Property offenses
2
Violent offenses
9
Total · 2024

Custer County, ID reported 47 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Custer County, ID agencies reported 2 violent and 7 property offenses. That equals about 47 violent and 164 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.

  • 2024 UCR year
  • 2 violent offenses
  • 47/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Custer County, ID

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Custer County reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,275. 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.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 163.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 46.8 in 2024 (-71.4%). The highest observed value was 210.5 in 2021 and the lowest 23.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Position in the state cohort

Custer County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Idaho counties

At 46.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Custer County ranks 26 of 33 — above 7 of the 32 other Idaho counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -41.0% against the cohort median of 79.3. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

Offense mix

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 22.2% of the 9 Part I offenses reported in Custer County for 2024, against a median of 29.9% across comparable Idaho counties — a gap of 7.7 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.

Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county

Category Count
Property Crime 7
Burglary 0
Larceny-Theft 5
Motor Vehicle Theft 2
Arson 0
Violent Crime 2
Murder 0
Rape 0
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 2

Reporting Agency

Custer County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Custer County's crime figures on this page originate from Custer County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

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.

Similar-Size Counties in Idaho

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Idaho counties closest to Custer County in population. Their populations run from 4,379 to 7,610, against 4,275 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Custer County

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.

FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.

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