CrimeMetric

Crime in Ida Grove, Iowa

Major crime in Ida Grove is 71% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 74% 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

Major crime
29
71% below the U.S. rate
60% below the Iowa rate
down 8.3% in a year
Persons crimes
45
56% below the U.S. rate
40% below the Iowa rate
down 5.6% in a year
Property crimes
26
74% below the U.S. rate
65% below the Iowa rate
down 9.3% in a year
Social disorder
70
30% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Iowa rate
down 7.2% in a year

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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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Ida Grove for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Ida Grove

Ida Grove is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 20; the middle half of residents live where it is between 17 and 49.

Map of Ida Grove, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest at night

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm22
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am38
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm21
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am39
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Iowa it fell 10.5%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.3%IA -10.5%-16.4%IA -13.2%
Persons crimes-5.6%IA -1.6%-5.9%IA -1.2%
Property crimes-9.3%IA -12.2%-20.3%IA -15.9%
Social disorder-7.2%IA -6.3%-14.1%IA -8.2%

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.

Similar-size places

Ida Grove against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

1,505 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ida Grove; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Linden, AL2,075102
Gorham, NH2,08288
Camden, AL2,09065
Erath, LA2,07337
Ida Grove, IA2,09329

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Ida Grove has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Denison (23 mi), is 16% above Ida Grove's rate.

Storm Lake26 mi81
Carroll37 mi68
Le Mars46 mi42
Denison23 mi34
Sac City27 mi32
Ida Grove29
Onawa38 mi24
Cherokee30 mi23

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Ida Grove

What are the most common crimes in Ida Grove?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 4 a year), aggravated assault (about 2 a year) and burglary (about 1 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.7 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. Ida Grove's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Ida Grove 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: 2,093. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ida Grove, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/ida-grove

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100