Crime in Waukee, Iowa
Major crime in Waukee is 69% below the U.S. rate per resident: 59% lower for persons crimes and 71% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 26.5% 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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Every crime type in Waukee is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Waukee 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 Waukee
The middle half of Waukee residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 29; the typical (median) resident's is 27.
- 0–5081.9%
- 50–10018.1%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 26.5% 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.
Waukee against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
907 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Waukee; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Waukee 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, Clive (4 mi), is 2.0 times Waukee's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Waukee
What are the most common crimes in Waukee?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 66 a year), other larceny (about 42 a year) and aggravated assault (about 40 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation 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. Waukee's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Waukee's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 50.9% 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: 40,305. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Waukee, Iowa." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ia/waukee
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Clive4 mi62
- West Des Moines5 mi80
- Urbandale6 mi40
- Grimes7 mi54
- Windsor Heights8 mi236
- Johnston9 mi41
- Norwalk13 mi18
- Des Moines13 mi164