Photo: Denisemurray1 · CC BY-SA 3.0For violent crime, Rathdrum beats 70% of U.S. towns per resident
Annual rates stand at 0.9 violent crime and 8.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 2.6 and 9.0 in the rest of Idaho. The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025. Counting crimes Rathdrum’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety: #12 of 41 graded towns in Idaho.
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 stands out about safety in Rathdrum
Rathdrum reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 1 Idaho towns on Rathdrum’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Post Falls (B). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Rathdrum’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Rathdrum | Rest of Idaho | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rathdrum’s police reported 35 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.9 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 Rathdrum 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
How crime in Rathdrum has moved
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| Year | Rathdrum property | Rest of Idaho property | Rathdrum violent | Rest of Idaho violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 0.7 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 8.5 | 9.3 | 0.6 | 2.7 |
| 2025 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 1.4 | 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, 2023–2025, 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.
19 violent and 101 property, as reported to the FBI by Rathdrum’s police.
Three people died in crashes on Rathdrum’s roads in 2019–2023
Rathdrum had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 2 were pedestrians.
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 Rathdrum’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rathdrum’s own rate (5.5) 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.
Rathdrum and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rathdrum | B+ | 0.9 | 8.1 |
| Post Falls | B | 1.5 | 7.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Idaho towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rathdrum | B+ | 0.9 | 8.1 |
| Middleton | B+ | 1.6 | 5.9 |
| Sandpoint | B | 0.7 | 11.7 |
| Jerome | B | 2.3 | 5.8 |
| Blackfoot | C+ | 3.2 | 8.6 |
| Garden City | C− | 6.2 | 13.7 |
The five graded Idaho towns closest to Rathdrum’s population (13,227), 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 Rathdrum. 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 Rathdrum’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (13,635 in 2025); our figure for Rathdrum is 13,227 (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 Rathdrum
Is Rathdrum, ID safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rathdrum reports less crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #12 of 41 in Idaho. Its police reported 0.9 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 Rathdrum?
0.9 violent and 8.1 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.
Is Rathdrum safer than Post Falls?
Post Falls reports more crime per resident than Rathdrum: Post Falls grades B for safety and Rathdrum B+. Post Falls’s police reported 1.5 violent and 7.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Rathdrum?
Rathdrum’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rathdrum”. 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.