Crime in Iowa City, Iowa
Major crime in Iowa City is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 14% higher for persons crimes and 17% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% 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.
Check an address in Iowa City
Intimidation stands out most, at 3.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Iowa City 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 Iowa City
The middle half of Iowa City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 126; the typical (median) resident's is 57. The citywide figure (116) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5042.8%
- 50–10028.8%
- 100–20012.9%
- 200–4007.6%
- 400+7.9%
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 7.8% 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.
Iowa City against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
180 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Iowa City; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Iowa City has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Coralville (4 mi), is 5% below Iowa City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Iowa City
What are the most common crimes in Iowa City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 555 a year), shoplifting (about 309 a year) and aggravated assault (about 210 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 3.8 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. Iowa City's figures add up its 49 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Iowa City's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 74.6% 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: 77,357. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Iowa City, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/iowa-city
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Coralville4 mi110
- North Liberty8 mi23
- West Liberty16 mi28
- Mount Vernon20 mi24
- Tipton22 mi35
- Cedar Rapids24 mi117
- Washington26 mi86
- Marion27 mi42