Crime in Yankton, South Dakota
Major crime in Yankton is 9% below the U.S. rate per resident: 37% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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 and other larceny stand out most, at about 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Yankton 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 Yankton
The middle half of Yankton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 143; the typical (median) resident's is 67. The citywide figure (91) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5037.3%
- 50–10028.9%
- 100–20011.2%
- 200–40022.7%
- 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 7.5% 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.
Yankton against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
793 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Yankton; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Yankton 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, Vermillion (25 mi), is about Yankton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Yankton
What are the most common crimes in Yankton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 183 a year), aggravated assault (about 18 a year) and rape / sexual assault (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.5 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. Yankton's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Yankton's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 14,946. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Yankton, South Dakota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sd/yankton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Vermillion25 mi88
- Wayne, NE49 mi32
- Canton50 mi70
- Harrisburg51 mi33
- Sioux Falls55 mi129
- Sioux City, IA58 mi174
- South Sioux City, NE58 mi88
- Norfolk, NE59 mi62