Crime in Pocatello, Idaho
Major crime in Pocatello is 6% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% higher for persons crimes and 13% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.6% 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 2.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pocatello 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 Pocatello
The middle half of Pocatello residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 43 and 108; the typical (median) resident's is 59. The citywide figure (94) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5042.9%
- 50–10027.1%
- 100–20021.6%
- 200–4006.4%
- 400+2.1%
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 9.6% 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.
Pocatello against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
258 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pocatello; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pocatello 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, Chubbuck (4 mi), is 8% below Pocatello's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pocatello
What are the most common crimes in Pocatello?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 246 a year), other larceny (about 207 a year) and aggravated assault (about 201 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.7 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. Pocatello's figures add up its 44 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pocatello has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 73.4% 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: 59,654. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pocatello, Idaho." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/id/pocatello
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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