Crime in Cherokee, Iowa
Major crime in Cherokee is 77% below the U.S. rate per resident: 55% lower for persons crimes and 82% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% 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 Cherokee is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cherokee for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across Cherokee
The middle half of Cherokee residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 25; the typical (median) resident's is 25.
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- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% 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.
Cherokee against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
2,075 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cherokee; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cherokee has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Storm Lake (20 mi), is 3.6 times Cherokee's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cherokee
What are the most common crimes in Cherokee?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 7 a year), other larceny (about 5 a year) and burglary (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: about 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. Cherokee's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cherokee has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 5,466. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cherokee, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/cherokee
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Storm Lake20 mi81
- Ida Grove30 mi29
- Le Mars31 mi42
- Sheldon32 mi39
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