CrimeMetric

Crime in Wahoo, Nebraska

Major crime in Wahoo is 76% below the U.S. rate per resident: 80% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
24
76% below the U.S. rate
72% below the Nebraska rate
down 8.3% in a year
Persons crimes
20
80% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Nebraska rate
down 7.0% in a year
Property crimes
25
75% below the U.S. rate
72% below the Nebraska rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
135
35% above the U.S. rate
14% above the Nebraska rate
down 7.7% 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 4.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Wahoo 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 Wahoo

Wahoo is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 21; the middle half of residents live where it is between 15 and 29.

Map of Wahoo, 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.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm26
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am25
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm25
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am18
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Nebraska it fell 10.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.3%NE -10.2%-10.4%NE -11.0%
Persons crimes-7.0%NE -5.0%+2.5%NE +0.7%
Property crimes-8.5%NE -11.0%-12.6%NE -13.0%
Social disorder-7.7%NE -6.2%-8.3%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

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

2,042 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wahoo; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Franklin, LA5,250128
Tyrone, PA5,24985
Benson, AZ5,25570
Colona, IL5,25163
Wahoo, NE5,25324

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

Nearby places

Wahoo has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Valley (16 mi), is 26% above Wahoo's rate.

Omaha30 mi159
Lincoln29 mi122
Fremont17 mi91
Ralston30 mi76
La Vista30 mi48
Gretna21 mi34
Valley16 mi31
Chalco25 mi27
Wahoo24

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

Questions about crime in Wahoo

What are the most common crimes in Wahoo?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 10 a year), shoplifting (about 4 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.0 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. Wahoo's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Wahoo 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: 5,253. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100