CrimeMetric

Crime in Crete, Nebraska

Major crime in Crete is 28% below the U.S. rate per resident: 44% lower for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
72
28% below the U.S. rate
15% below the Nebraska rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
56
44% below the U.S. rate
19% below the Nebraska rate
down 6.2% in a year
Property crimes
76
24% below the U.S. rate
15% below the Nebraska rate
down 7.8% in a year
Social disorder
83
17% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Nebraska rate
down 6.1% 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

Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Crete

Crete is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 36; the middle half of residents live where it is between 36 and 147.

Map of Crete, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5054.6%
  • 50–10015.0%
  • 100–20030.5%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm72
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am76
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm73
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am65
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Nebraska it fell 10.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%NE -10.2%-11.4%NE -11.0%
Persons crimes-6.2%NE -5.0%+2.1%NE +0.7%
Property crimes-7.8%NE -11.0%-13.6%NE -13.0%
Social disorder-6.1%NE -6.2%-5.3%NE -5.6%

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.

Similar-size places

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

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

Montrose, VA8,516220
Milton, WA8,520110
Crete, NE8,51872

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

Nearby places

Crete 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, Lincoln (19 mi), is 1.7 times Crete's rate.

Lincoln19 mi122
York37 mi109
Crete72
Beatrice27 mi38
Seward21 mi36
Gretna51 mi34
Fairbury36 mi31
Valley57 mi31
Wahoo44 mi24

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

Questions about crime in Crete

What are the most common crimes in Crete?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 41 a year), other larceny (about 36 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.2 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. Crete's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Crete 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: 8,518. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Crete, Nebraska." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ne/crete

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100