Decision-support ranking comparing Iowa 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.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fort Dodge Violent Crime has increased 113% since 2021. |
10.2 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Des Moines Violent Crime has increased 13% since 2021. |
6.9 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Davenport Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021. |
5.9 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Sioux City Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021. |
5.6 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Burlington Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Dubuque Violent Crime has declined 2% since 2021. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Waterloo Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021. |
4.1 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Council Bluffs Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021. |
4.0 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Newton Violent Crime has increased 3% since 2021. |
4.0 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Knoxville Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2022. |
3.7 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Clinton Violent Crime has declined 33% since 2021. |
3.7 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Marshalltown Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Iowa City Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021. |
3.2 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Cedar Rapids Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021. |
2.6 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Windsor Heights Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021. |
2.4 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Cedar Falls Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
2.1 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Osceola Violent Crime has declined 30% since 2021. |
2.1 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Ankeny Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021. |
1.8 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Coralville Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021. |
1.8 / 1k | → |
| 20 | West Des Moines Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Ames Violent Crime has declined 20% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Pleasant Hill Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Waukee Violent Crime has increased 40% since 2021. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Altoona Violent Crime has declined 48% since 2021. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Marion Violent Crime has declined 54% since 2021. |
1.3 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Iowa 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.
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.