Crime in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Major crime in Cedar Rapids is 17% above the U.S. rate per resident: 24% lower for persons crimes and 26% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.8% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids
The middle half of Cedar Rapids residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 135; the typical (median) resident's is 63. The citywide figure (117) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5031.5%
- 50–10034.5%
- 100–20019.6%
- 200–40010.3%
- 400+4.1%
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 fell 14.8% 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.
Cedar Rapids against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
120 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cedar Rapids; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cedar Rapids has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hiawatha (4 mi), is 40% below Cedar Rapids's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cedar Rapids
What are the most common crimes in Cedar Rapids?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 840 a year), shoplifting (about 725 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 426 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.8 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. Cedar Rapids's figures add up its 101 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cedar Rapids has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 52.3% 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: 139,201. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cedar Rapids, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/cedar-rapids
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hiawatha4 mi70
- Marion6 mi42
- Robins6 mi27
- Mount Vernon13 mi24
- North Liberty17 mi23
- Coralville21 mi110
- Vinton21 mi27
- Anamosa23 mi30