Crime in Box Elder, South Dakota
Major crime in Box Elder is 7% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 10% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Box Elder 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 Box Elder
The middle half of Box Elder residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 134; the typical (median) resident's is 103.
- 0–5028.4%
- 50–10013.8%
- 100–20057.8%
- 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 weekday daytimes
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 South Dakota it fell 7.4%
Change in expected crimes, with South Dakota as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Box Elder against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
779 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Box Elder; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Box Elder 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, Rapid Valley (8 mi), is 55% below Box Elder's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Box Elder
What are the most common crimes in Box Elder?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 116 a year), aggravated assault (about 36 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol 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. Box Elder's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Box Elder 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: 15,330. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Box Elder, South Dakota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sd/box-elder
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rapid Valley8 mi42
- Rapid City11 mi267
- Sturgis29 mi113
- Spearfish45 mi82
- Belle Fourche52 mi66
- Hot Springs53 mi20
- Newcastle, WY62 mi55
- Chadron, NE92 mi91