Crime in Boise City, Idaho
Major crime in Boise City is 42% below the U.S. rate per resident: 16% lower for persons crimes and 47% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.1% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Boise 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 Boise City
The middle half of Boise City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 65; the typical (median) resident's is 44. The citywide figure (58) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5055.5%
- 50–10037.0%
- 100–2003.5%
- 200–4002.3%
- 400+1.7%
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 11.1% in a year; across Idaho it fell 7.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Idaho as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Boise City against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
233 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Boise City; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Boise City has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Garden City (3 mi), is 1.5 times Boise City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Boise City
What are the most common crimes in Boise City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 626 a year), aggravated assault (about 416 a year) and shoplifting (about 411 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault 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. Boise City's figures add up its 169 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Boise City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 53.0% 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: 235,487. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Boise City, Idaho." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/id/boise-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100