Crime in Reno, Nevada
Major crime in Reno is 28% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.5 times for persons crimes and 22% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 28.2% 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 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Reno 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 Reno
The middle half of Reno residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 134; the typical (median) resident's is 75. The citywide figure (128) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5035.1%
- 50–10028.4%
- 100–20021.9%
- 200–4008.7%
- 400+5.9%
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 28.2% 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.
Reno against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
32 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Reno; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Reno has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Sun Valley (6 mi), is 63% below Reno's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Reno
What are the most common crimes in Reno?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,716 a year), theft from vehicle (about 1,087 a year) and aggravated assault (about 865 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.0 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. Reno's figures add up its 212 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Reno has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 76.9% 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: 284,604. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Reno, Nevada." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nv/reno
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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