Crime in Altoona, Iowa
Major crime in Altoona is 56% below the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 57% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Altoona is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Altoona for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Altoona
The middle half of Altoona residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 13 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 34. The citywide figure (44) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5064.8%
- 50–10025.3%
- 100–2009.9%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Iowa it fell 10.5%
Change in expected crimes, with Iowa as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Altoona against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,641 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Altoona; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Altoona has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pleasant Hill (4 mi), is 15% below Altoona's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Altoona
What are the most common crimes in Altoona?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 55 a year), theft from vehicle (about 31 a year) and aggravated assault (about 29 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 33% below the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Altoona's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Altoona's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 22,638. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Altoona, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/altoona
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Pleasant Hill4 mi37
- Des Moines8 mi164
- Ankeny10 mi72
- Windsor Heights13 mi236
- Johnston13 mi41
- Urbandale15 mi40
- Norwalk15 mi18
- West Des Moines16 mi80