The SafeWise Team is pleased to release the sixth annual Safest Cities report. Here are the 10 Safest Cities in Idaho for 2020.
- Rexburg
- Hailey
- Middleton
- Rathdrum
- Preston
- Moscow
- Meridian
- Emmett
- Payette
- Post Falls
Read more about our list.
We looked at the most current mass shooting data. Idaho hasn't had a new incident since our last update in May, but there have been 299 mass shootings across the US so far in 2020. See how the coronavirus is impacting crime in Idaho and across the country. Read our coronavirus crime update for details.
The SafeWise Team is pleased to release the sixth annual Safest Cities report. Here are the 10 Safest Cities in Idaho for 2020.
Read more about our list.
If you call the Gem State home, chances are you’re less worried about safety than people in other states. Idaho has lower crime rates than most of the country, and its safest cities boast some of the lowest rates we’ve seen.
Check out the complete list of Idaho’s 10 safest cities of 2020.
With minimal crime, it’s no surprise that only 35% of the Idahoans we talked to in our 2020 State of Safety study are highly concerned about crime on a daily basis. That’s 11 percentage points below the national average.
View the complete 2020 State of Safety report.
At 2.3 incidents per 1,000 people, Idaho’s violent crime rate is significantly lower than the national rate of 3.7. And the good news keeps on coming—Idaho saw just 14.6 property crime incidents per 1,000 people in 2018. That’s about seven points lower than the national rate of 22.0.
Idaho is most worried about mass shootings even though there's never been one there.
Idahoans also experience crime less often than much of the country. Only 2% of study participants reported experience with a violent crime in the past year, and just 14% had a run-in with property crime.
When it comes to violent crime, Idahoans are equally concerned about physical assault by a stranger and being a victim of a mass shooting. Yet levels of concern for all violent crimes are lower than national averages.
Last year digital security was the top safety concern in Idaho. This year, people feel that theft of digital property is the most likely crime that could happen, but they are more worried about break-ins.
For the purposes of this report, the terms “dangerous” and “safest” refer explicitly to crime rates as calculated from FBI crime data—no other characterization of any community is implied or intended.
VC = Violent Crime PC = Property Crime
Learn how we identified the safest cities on our methodology page.
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We calculated crime rates for every city in the state that met our population threshold, which is based on the median population of the state. See how the remaining cities ranked in the list below.
NOTE: If you don’t see your city on the list, it means that it was below the population threshold or didn’t submit a complete crime report to the FBI in 2018.
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, “2018 Crime in the United States”
SafeWise, “2020 State of Safety”
US Census Bureau, “American Fact Finder”
Gun Violence Archive (GVA), “Mass Shootings Reports”
Mass Shooting Definition:
SafeWise uses the GVA definition of a mass shooting: “If four or more people are shot or killed in a single incident, not involving the shooter, that incident is categorized as a mass shooting based purely on that numerical threshold.”