Crime in Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Major crime in Pleasant Hill is 63% below the U.S. rate per resident: 77% lower for persons crimes and 60% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.4% 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 Pleasant Hill is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pleasant Hill 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
Neighborhoods in Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Hill is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 20; the middle half of residents live where it is between 13 and 37.
- 0–5083.1%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20016.9%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.4% 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.
Pleasant Hill against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,806 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pleasant Hill; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pleasant Hill 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, Altoona (4 mi), is 17% above Pleasant Hill's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pleasant Hill
What are the most common crimes in Pleasant Hill?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 23 a year), shoplifting (about 19 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 14 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol 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. Pleasant Hill's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pleasant Hill's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 13,056. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pleasant Hill, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/pleasant-hill
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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