Decision-support ranking comparing South Dakota 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 | Rapid City Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021. |
7.2 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Pierre Violent Crime has increased 28% since 2021. |
5.5 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Sioux Falls Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021. |
5.1 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Box Elder Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Mitchell Violent Crime has declined 32% since 2021. |
4.2 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Watertown Violent Crime has increased 17% since 2021. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Aberdeen Violent Crime has increased 173% since 2021. |
3.0 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Spearfish Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021. |
2.7 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Tea Violent Crime has declined 11% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Vermillion Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Brookings Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021. |
1.1 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Brandon Violent Crime moved down by 0.1 / 1k from 0.7 / 1k in 2021 to 0.6 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.6 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported South Dakota 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.