2025 Compare Cities Crime:
Boise City, ID vs San Jose, CA

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- San Jose has 35% more violent crime than Boise City.
- San Jose has 6% more property crime than Boise City.
 Boise City, IDSan Jose, CAUnited States
 Violent Crime  Unlock2522.7
 Property Crime34.2  Unlock35.4

Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)

Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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Reviews for San Jose    90 Reviews

I've lived in west San Jose/Cambrian, between Los Gatos and Almaden SJ since 1997. This side of town somehow avoided the erosion of the American dream. Houses are  More

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I lived in San Jose for 40 years. That’s during the most exciting time when the Silicon Valley was booming with real technology and San Jose was ranked as the safest big  More

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Over 4 years ago

I've lived in San Jose, CA for 25 years. This city is being over run with crime and gangs. The cost of living is very high. Granted, you are so close to mountains,  More

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Cities with the Least Crime Near Boise City, IdahoCrime Index
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 Middleton, ID13.3
 Robie Creek, ID13.45
 Hidden Springs, ID14.35
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 Placerville, ID15.95
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