CrimeMetric

Crime in Payette, Idaho

Major crime in Payette is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 18% lower for persons crimes and 49% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
57
43% below the U.S. rate
25% above the Idaho rate
down 7.4% in a year
Persons crimes
82
18% below the U.S. rate
16% above the Idaho rate
down 4.2% in a year
Property crimes
51
49% below the U.S. rate
29% above the Idaho rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
153
1.5 times the U.S. rate
49% above the Idaho rate
down 7.1% in a year

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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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Payette for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Payette

The middle half of Payette residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 113; the typical (median) resident's is 32. The citywide figure (57) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Payette, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5074.2%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20025.8%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm60
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm45
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am56
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.4% in a year; across Idaho it fell 7.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.4%ID -7.2%-7.5%ID -5.2%
Persons crimes-4.2%ID -0.9%+4.9%ID +8.1%
Property crimes-8.5%ID -9.5%-11.9%ID -10.5%
Social disorder-7.1%ID -4.7%-4.7%ID -1.5%

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.

Similar-size places

Payette against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,204 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Payette; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Payette 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, Fruitland (4 mi), is 47% below Payette's rate.

Nyssa, OR14 mi71
Caldwell33 mi59
Payette57
Nampa39 mi48
Emmett26 mi46
Middleton30 mi37
Fruitland4 mi30
Eagle38 mi28

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Payette

What are the most common crimes in Payette?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 32 a year), aggravated assault (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.4 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. Payette's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Payette 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: 7,665. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Payette, Idaho." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/id/payette

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100