Idaho violent crime rate
230.6 per 100,000
Violent crimes per 100,000 residents in Idaho, 2024 (estimate)
+18.4 per 100,000 since 2014 (212.2 per 100,000); +18.4 per 100,000 since 2014 (212.2 per 100,000); +18.4 per 100,000 since 2014 (212.2 per 100,000)
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting, Crime in the United States, by State (Table 5), 2014 and 2024. Data period 2024. Status: estimate. Published 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
What the number tells us
Violent crimes per 100,000 residents in Idaho: 230.6 per 100,000 in 2024 (an estimate). Estimated violent crime offenses per 100,000 population, as published by the FBI.
Among 51 states and the District of Columbia, Idaho ranked 38th highest in 2024. District of Columbia was highest at 1,005.5 per 100,000 and Maine lowest at 100.1 per 100,000.
The United States figure for 2024 was 359.1 per 100,000.
Historical data
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting, Crime in the United States, by State (Table 5), 2014 and 2024. Published 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
Data table (2 rows)
| Period | Idaho (per 100,000 residents) | Property crime rate (FBI estimate) (per 100,000 residents) |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 212.2 | 1,854.8 |
| 2024 | 230.6 | 736.3 |
Compared with other states
Idaho, its six neighboring states, the United States, and the three highest and lowest states in 2024. The table lists all 52.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting, Crime in the United States, by State (Table 5), 2014 and 2024. Data period 2024. Published 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
Data table (52 rows)
| State | 2024 |
|---|---|
| 1. District of Columbia | 1,005.5 |
| 2. Alaska | 724.1 |
| 3. New Mexico | 717.1 |
| 4. Tennessee | 592.3 |
| 5. Arkansas | 579.4 |
| 6. Louisiana | 519.8 |
| 7. California | 486 |
| 8. Colorado | 476.3 |
| 9. Missouri | 462 |
| 10. Kansas | 438.7 |
| 11. South Carolina | 436.7 |
| 12. Michigan | 434.3 |
| 13. Montana | 423.5 |
| 14. Oklahoma | 422.8 |
| 15. Arizona | 421.9 |
| 16. Maryland | 420.4 |
| 17. Nevada | 402 |
| 18. Texas | 389.4 |
| 19. New York | 380.2 |
| 20. North Carolina | 375.8 |
| 21. South Dakota | 362.3 |
| 22. Delaware | 360.8 |
| 23. Alabama | 359.9 |
| 24. United States | 359.1 |
| 25. Oregon | 331 |
| 26. Washington | 326.1 |
| 27. Georgia | 325.7 |
| 28. Massachusetts | 314.7 |
| 29. Indiana | 312.9 |
| 30. Ohio | 293.7 |
| 31. Illinois | 289.2 |
| 32. Wisconsin | 278.5 |
| 33. Florida | 267.1 |
| 34. Minnesota | 256.6 |
| 35. North Dakota | 254.3 |
| 36. West Virginia | 248.8 |
| 37. Pennsylvania | 245.6 |
| 38. Iowa | 243.3 |
| 39. Idaho | 230.6 |
| 40. Utah | 229.6 |
| 41. Nebraska | 220.5 |
| 42. Vermont | 219.1 |
| 43. Virginia | 217.9 |
| 44. Hawaii | 217.7 |
| 45. New Jersey | 217.7 |
| 46. Kentucky | 213.1 |
| 47. Mississippi | 210.5 |
| 48. Wyoming | 203.4 |
| 49. Rhode Island | 153.6 |
| 50. Connecticut | 136 |
| 51. New Hampshire | 110.1 |
| 52. Maine | 100.1 |
Source
- Organization
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting
- Dataset
- Crime in the United States, by State (Table 5), 2014 and 2024
- Geography
- Nation, District of Columbia, and states
- Time coverage
- 2014, 2024
- Update frequency
- Annual (this puller only pulls the newest year and one decade-earlier year)
- Published
- 2025
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- Original file
- https://www.justfacts.com/document/crime_united_states_2024_fbi_full.pdf
- Methodology
- https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-5/table-5-data-declaration
- License
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Our copy
- fbi-cde-state, built by
scripts/fetch-fbi-cde-state.py
Caveats
- The FBI's Crime Data Explorer (cde.ucr.cjis.gov) only exposes state-level estimates through its interactive web app or a REST API gated by an api.data.gov key not available to this puller; the CDE's own advertised static bulk-download bucket (from the retired 18F crime-data-frontend project) is dead and only ever covered 1995-2016 with no state rate column. This dataset instead uses the FBI's traditional 'Crime in the United States' (CIUS) Table 5 for 2014 (fetched directly from ucr.fbi.gov) and 2024 (fetched from a justfacts.com mirror of the identical DOJ/FBI document, because the FBI's own current hosts for it are either JavaScript-only or return a bot-detection challenge to non-browser clients).
- 2024 figures are FBI estimates released Summer 2025; 2024 national and Idaho figures were not yet final as of that release.
- In 2013 the FBI's UCR Program revised its definition of rape; the 2014 violent-crime totals and rates use the revised definition, matching the FBI's own headline 2014 total, though the source table also carries a legacy-definition rape column not used here.
- On January 1, 2021 the FBI's UCR Program transitioned to NIBRS-only collection; participation in 2021 fell below the FBI's own bar for national representativeness, and 2022-2024 estimates rely on a mix of NIBRS and Summary Reporting System (SRS) submissions from agencies that had not transitioned. This break in reporting basis sits between the two years in this dataset (2014 and 2024) and affects comparability of the trend, though not the cross-sectional state comparison within either year.
- The 2014 Table 5 workbook is a legacy Excel 97-2003 (BIFF8/OLE2) file; openpyxl cannot open that format (it reads only OOXML .xlsx), so this puller reads it with xlrd, the standard library for the legacy format.
- Puerto Rico is excluded (not a geography in data/geographies.json); the District of Columbia is included as its own geography.
Data
Download the full dataset behind this page as CSV or JSON, or browse the data catalog. Cite this page as Understand Idaho, “Idaho violent crime rate”, https://understandidaho.com/crime/violent-crime/, retrieved on the date you read it.