Crime in Sheldon, Iowa
Major crime in Sheldon is 61% below the U.S. rate per resident: 10% lower for persons crimes and 72% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.5% 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 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sheldon for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Sheldon
Sheldon is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 25; the middle half of residents live where it is between 25 and 54.
- 0–5064.4%
- 50–10035.6%
- 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 6.5% 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.
Sheldon against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,654 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sheldon; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sheldon has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Sibley (16 mi), is 65% below Sheldon's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sheldon
What are the most common crimes in Sheldon?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 13 a year), other larceny (about 9 a year) and shoplifting (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.0 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. Sheldon's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sheldon 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: 5,328. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sheldon, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/sheldon
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