Photo: RifeIdeas · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime reported in Cedar Falls, IA
Cedar Falls’ police reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025.
For every 1,000 residents, about 11 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
The years Cedar Falls’ police reported
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Iowa. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
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| Year | Cedar Falls | Rest of Iowa | Cedar Falls | Rest of Iowa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 19.2 | not reported | 3.7 |
| 2023 | not reported | 20.0 | not reported | 3.6 |
| 2024 | not reported | 17.9 | not reported | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 11.1 | 15.9 | 1.3 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
517 crimes reported in 2025
55 violent and 462 property, as reported to the FBI by Cedar Falls’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
The nearest Iowa towns with a Safety Grade
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Straight-line distance from the center of Cedar Falls. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Cedar Falls.
Five people died in crashes on Cedar Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Cedar Falls had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.
That is about what is typical for Iowa towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (3.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Cedar Falls’s size would see about 8 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cedar Falls’s own rate (2.4) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Cedar Falls and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Hudson has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Cedar Falls. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Cedar Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (41,596 in 2025); our figure for Cedar Falls is 41,240 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Cedar Falls
Is Cedar Falls, IA safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Cedar Falls. Cedar Falls’ police reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The nearest Iowa towns with a grade are Waterloo (D, 6 mi), Evansdale (C+, 10 mi), Denver (A, 12 mi).
Who polices Cedar Falls?
Cedar Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cedar Falls”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
Heads-up board
Neighbors looking out for each other in Cedar Falls.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.