Crime in Elko, Nevada
Major crime in Elko is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 17% higher for persons crimes and 30% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Elko 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 Elko
The middle half of Elko residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 42 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 56. The citywide figure (78) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5030.7%
- 50–10055.8%
- 100–2007.2%
- 200–4006.3%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across Nevada it fell 12.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Nevada as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Elko against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
979 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elko; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Elko 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, Battle Mountain (63 mi), is about Elko's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Elko
What are the most common crimes in Elko?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 145 a year), aggravated assault (about 62 a year) and burglary (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.3 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. Elko's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Elko 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: 24,136. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elko, Nevada." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nv/elko
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Battle Mountain63 mi79
- West Wendover85 mi119
- Winnemucca112 mi88
- Ely120 mi58
- Buhl, ID131 mi28
- Filer, ID131 mi33
- Twin Falls, ID136 mi78
- Wendell, ID145 mi41