Photo: publichall · CC BY-SA 3.0Property crime per resident is lower in Mountain Home than in 78% of U.S. towns
Mountain Home’s overall Safety Grade is B (#19 of 41 graded towns in Idaho): less crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 2.2 violent crimes and 5.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Idaho, the figures are 2.6 and 9.0.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of ID” is every other Idaho city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What’s behind Mountain Home’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Mountain Home’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (2.2) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mountain Home | Rest of Idaho | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mountain Home’s police reported 111 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.6 in the rest of Idaho and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Mountain Home per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Mountain Home property | Rest of Idaho property | Mountain Home violent | Rest of Idaho violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.7 | 11.6 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| 2023 | 5.7 | 10.1 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 5.3 | 9.4 | 2.0 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 5.1 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 2.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Idaho.
120 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
32 violent and 88 property, as reported to the FBI by Mountain Home’s police.
Two people died in crashes on Mountain Home’s roads in 2019–2023
Mountain Home had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died. Most of these deaths (1 of 2) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Idaho towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (1.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Mountain Home’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mountain Home’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.
Mountain Home and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | B | 2.2 | 5.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Idaho towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | B | 2.2 | 5.4 |
| Rathdrum | B+ | 0.9 | 8.1 |
| Jerome | B | 2.3 | 5.8 |
| Blackfoot | C+ | 3.2 | 8.6 |
| Chubbuck | C− | 2.8 | 24.7 |
| Garden City | C− | 6.2 | 13.7 |
The five graded Idaho towns closest to Mountain Home’s population (16,779), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Mountain Home. 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 Mountain Home’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (17,129 in 2025); our figure for Mountain Home is 16,779 (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 Mountain Home
Is Mountain Home, ID safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mountain Home reports less crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #19 of 41 in Idaho. Its police reported 2.2 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.6 in the rest of Idaho and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Mountain Home?
2.2 violent and 5.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Idaho reports 2.6 and 9.0; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Mountain Home?
Mountain Home’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mountain Home”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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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.