Photo: Brad Mellema · CC BY-SA 4.0Grand Island has more violent crime per resident than four in five U.S. towns
Its Safety Grade is C−, on crimes Grand Island’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #35 of 37 graded towns in Nebraska. The crimes the grade counts fell 16% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 3.9 violent crimes and 18.5 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 2.7 and 20.7 in the rest of Nebraska.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NE” is every other Nebraska 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 Grand Island
Among Nebraska towns, lower
Nebraska’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Grand Island’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 5% of the 37 Nebraska towns we grade, against 22% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Grand Island’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Grand Island property | Rest of Nebraska property | Grand Island violent | Rest of Nebraska violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25.8 | 26.0 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| 2023 | 20.8 | 20.1 | 4.1 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 17.6 | 23.2 | 3.7 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 17.1 | 18.7 | 3.9 | 2.8 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Nebraska.
Crime in Grand Island 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Grand Island | Rest of Nebraska | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Grand Island’s police reported 613 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Nebraska and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
1,117 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.
206 violent and 911 property, as reported to the FBI by Grand Island’s police.
12 people died in crashes on Grand Island’s roads in 2019–2023
Grand Island had 12 fatal crashes in five years, in which 12 people died; 3 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
That is 4.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Nebraska towns of 25,000–100,000 people (4.0, 7 towns).
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.
Grand Island and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Island | C− | 3.9 | 18.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Nebraska towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Island | C− | 3.9 | 18.5 |
| Bellevue | B− | 1.1 | 12.8 |
| Kearney | C | 2.7 | 15.5 |
The five graded Nebraska towns closest to Grand Island’s population (53,943), 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 Grand Island. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Grand Island’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (53,307 in 2025); our figure for Grand Island is 53,943 (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 Grand Island
Is Grand Island, NE safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Grand Island reports more crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #35 of 37 in Nebraska. Its police reported 3.9 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Nebraska and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Grand Island?
3.9 violent and 18.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Nebraska reports 2.7 and 20.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Grand Island in 2025?
Grand Island’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.9 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Grand Island?
Grand Island’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Grand Island”. 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.