Boise City, ID Crime


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Boise, ID has a lower violent crime rate than the US average, with 16.3 incidents per 1,000 people compared to 22.7 incidents per 1,000 people nationally. Similarly, Boise's property crime rate is also lower than the national average of 35.4 incidents per 1,000 people at 34.2 incidences per capita. This suggests that Boise is generally a safe place to live and that its citizens enjoy a relatively high level of security from criminal activity.

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

Boise City violent crime is 16.3. (The US average is 22.7)
Boise City property crime is 34.2. (The US average is 35.4)

NOTE: Click on the links below to see charts for each crime category.
 Violent Crimes  - Murder  Rape  Robbery  Assault
 Property Crimes  - Burglary  Larceny  Auto Theft
Boise City, ID Crime History
*Closest City
Year Violent Murder Rape Robbery Assault Property Burglary Larceny Auto
2000375.20.639.135.6299.94413.67753416.2222.3
2001334.81.144.341.1248.34267.9710.23249.3308.4
2002352.63.147.843.6258.14190.4684.53224.4281.5
2003326.81.655.840.32294199.3735.23217.5246.6
2004384.3064.541.3278.53761.9635.52853.5272.9
2005383.62.661.544.1275.43837.7696.42885.5255.9
2006389.5364.156266.43337.8587.82559.9190.2
2007325.5561.334.22253101.4511.32399.8190.4
2008270.40.539.831.4198.82893.5542.32245.7105.5
2009260.63.433.930193.32788.7506.72197.884.3
2010261.81.543.228.2188.92771.7431.32263.277.2
2011245.30.531.728.4184.72562.23892090.582.7
20122680.535.430.3201.82524.9431.52019.274.2
2013279.91.457.421200.22212384.91727.799.4
2014296.41.856.926.4211.32085.9320.41676.788.8
2015308.90.56920.1219.32275.6305.21847.9122.5
2016297.62.764.823.12072325.7331.61841.9152.2
2017279.20.963.822.6191.92444.6326.11965.2153.3
20182770.475.522.2178.82018.2278.31624.8115.2
2019280.61.770.919188.91579.2203.21276.299.9

   Crime in Nearby Cities
City Violent
per 100k
Property
per 100k
Pop. Miles Data
Year
Garden City, ID440.52,227.211,33252019
Meridian, ID159.21,068.435,64982019
Nampa, ID311.61,799.252,951162019
Middleton, ID131.0893.47,486202019
Caldwell, ID350.41,720.726,510212019
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City Violent
per 100k
Property
per 100k
Pop. Miles Data
Year
Meridian, ID159.21,068.435,64982019
Nampa, ID311.61,799.252,951162019
Bend, OR153.11,907.834,6782542019
Spokane Valley, WA308.04,421.582,9732842019
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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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