Photo: Flickr user: Alvin Feng from Seattle · CC BY 2.0Sandpoint reports less violent crime than most U.S. towns, but more property crime
Overall, Sandpoint grades B for safety (#20 of 41 graded towns in Idaho): less crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Sandpoint
A job center
Sandpoint has 6,883 jobs based in town for 10,645 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Sandpoint’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Sandpoint’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (11.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) 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
Sandpoint’s police reported 22 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.6 in the rest of Idaho and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Sandpoint | Rest of Idaho | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
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.
Reported crime is steady
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.
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| Year | Sandpoint property | Rest of Idaho property | Sandpoint violent | Rest of Idaho violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.5 | 11.6 | 0.7 | 2.8 |
| 2023 | 13.8 | 10.0 | 0.6 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 10.0 | 9.3 | 0.9 | 2.7 |
| 2025 | 11.3 | 7.5 | 0.6 | 2.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
130 crimes reported in 2025
7 violent and 123 property, as reported to the FBI by Sandpoint’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
One person died in crashes on Sandpoint’s roads in 2019–2023
Sandpoint had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
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 Sandpoint’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sandpoint’s own rate (2.1) 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.
Sandpoint 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. Ponderay reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023. Dover 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 Sandpoint. 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 Sandpoint’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (10,924 in 2025); our figure for Sandpoint is 10,645 (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 Sandpoint
Is Sandpoint, ID safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Sandpoint reports less crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #20 of 41 in Idaho. Its police reported 0.7 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 Sandpoint?
0.7 violent and 11.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Idaho reports 2.6 and 8.9; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Sandpoint?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Sandpoint?
Sandpoint’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sandpoint”. 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.