Crime in Ankeny, Iowa
Major crime in Ankeny is 28% below the U.S. rate per resident: 50% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 5.6% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ankeny 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 Ankeny
The middle half of Ankeny residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 67; the typical (median) resident's is 33. The citywide figure (72) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5067.4%
- 50–10029.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+2.9%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 5.6% 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.
Ankeny against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
368 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ankeny; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ankeny has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Johnston (7 mi), is 43% below Ankeny's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ankeny
What are the most common crimes in Ankeny?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 337 a year), other larceny (about 292 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 82 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 1.6 times 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. Ankeny's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ankeny's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 27.6% 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: 72,964. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ankeny, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/ankeny
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Johnston7 mi41
- Grimes9 mi54
- Altoona10 mi44
- Des Moines10 mi164
- Urbandale10 mi40
- Windsor Heights10 mi236
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