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Idaho Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Idaho cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
20
Supported Idaho cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Twin Falls
Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
2 Caldwell
Violent Crime has increased 91% since 2021.
4.4 / 1k
3 Idaho Falls
Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021.
4.1 / 1k
4 Nampa
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
3.6 / 1k
5 Pocatello
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
3.4 / 1k
6 Boise
Violent Crime has increased 3% since 2021.
3.2 / 1k
7 Payette
Violent Crime has declined 34% since 2021.
3.1 / 1k
8 Blackfoot
Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
9 Mountain Home
Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021.
2.8 / 1k
10 Chubbuck
Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021.
2.8 / 1k
11 Coeur D'alene
Violent Crime has declined 23% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
12 Lewiston
Violent Crime has increased 13% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
13 Kootenai
Violent Crime has declined 32% since 2021.
1.9 / 1k
14 Rigby
Violent Crime has increased 23% since 2021.
1.6 / 1k
15 Fruitland
Violent Crime has declined 50% since 2021.
1.5 / 1k
16 Meridian
Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021.
1.5 / 1k
17 Post Falls
Violent Crime moved up by 1.4 / 1k from 0.0 / 1k in 2021 to 1.4 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
1.4 / 1k
18 Middleton
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021.
1.3 / 1k
19 Rexburg
Violent Crime moved up by 0.3 / 1k from 0.4 / 1k in 2021 to 0.7 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
0.7 / 1k
20 Moscow
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
0.2 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Idaho cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.