Crime in Storm Lake, Iowa
Major crime in Storm Lake is 19% below the U.S. rate per resident: 25% lower for persons crimes and 18% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Storm Lake 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 Storm Lake
The middle half of Storm Lake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 52 and 94; the typical (median) resident's is 68. The citywide figure (81) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5018.3%
- 50–10062.6%
- 100–20019.1%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% 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.
Storm Lake against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
944 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Storm Lake; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Storm Lake has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Sac City (19 mi), is 61% below Storm Lake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Storm Lake
What are the most common crimes in Storm Lake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 65 a year), theft from vehicle (about 32 a year) and aggravated assault (about 23 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.6 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. Storm Lake's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Storm Lake has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 11.8% 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: 12,184. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Storm Lake, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/storm-lake
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100