Crime in Broken Bow, Nebraska
Major crime in Broken Bow is 82% below the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 86% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.1% 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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Every crime type in Broken Bow is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Broken Bow for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Broken Bow
Broken Bow is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 22; the middle half of residents live where it is between 9 and 22.
- 0–50100.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.1% in a year; across Nebraska it fell 10.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Nebraska as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Broken Bow against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,723 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Broken Bow; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Broken Bow 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, Ord (39 mi), is 6% above Broken Bow's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Broken Bow
What are the most common crimes in Broken Bow?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 4 a year), other larceny (about 3 a year) and shoplifting (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 10% below 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. Broken Bow's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Broken Bow 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: 3,735. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Broken Bow, Nebraska." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ne/broken-bow
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ord39 mi20
- Cozad41 mi18
- Lexington43 mi68
- Kearney56 mi64
- North Platte61 mi92
- Holdrege67 mi19
- Grand Island74 mi109
- Hastings86 mi86