Hastings Municipal Airport Hangar-Building No. 1 · Photo: Ammodramus · Public domainThe crimes the grade counts fell 43% per resident in Hastings from 2023 to 2025
Violent crime here is higher than in 70% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 78%. Annual rates stand at 2.8 violent crimes and 20.2 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 2.8 and 20.6 in the rest of Nebraska. Add to that, the overall Safety Grade is C (#33 of 37 graded towns in Nebraska), which means more crime per resident than 75% of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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 Hastings
Among Nebraska towns, lower
Nebraska’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Hastings’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 11% of the 37 Nebraska towns we grade, against 25% 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 Hastings’ 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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.8) 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Hastings property | Rest of Nebraska property | Hastings violent | Rest of Nebraska violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 23.6 | 26.0 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
| 2023 | 26.3 | 19.9 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 20.1 | 23.0 | 3.2 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 14.4 | 18.7 | 2.3 | 2.9 |
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 Hastings 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Hastings | Rest of Nebraska | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Hastings’ police reported 212 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.8 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the rest of Nebraska and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
422 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.
59 violent and 363 property, as reported to the FBI by Hastings’ police.
Five people died in crashes on Hastings’s roads in 2019–2023
Hastings had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.
That is about what is typical for Nebraska towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (4.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Hastings’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hastings’s own rate (4.0) 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.
Hastings and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings | C | 2.8 | 20.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Nebraska towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings | C | 2.8 | 20.2 |
| Papillion | B+ | 0.4 | 9.6 |
| Columbus | B | 0.9 | 10.2 |
| Norfolk | B− | 1.7 | 9.8 |
| Kearney | C | 2.7 | 15.5 |
| North Platte | C | 1.4 | 21.8 |
The five graded Nebraska towns closest to Hastings’ population (25,121), 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 Hastings. 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 Hastings’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,158 in 2025); our figure for Hastings is 25,121 (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 Hastings
Is Hastings, NE safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hastings reports more crime per resident than 75% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #33 of 37 in Nebraska. Its police reported 2.8 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the rest of Nebraska and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Hastings?
2.8 violent and 20.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Nebraska reports 2.8 and 20.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Hastings in 2025?
Hastings’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Hastings?
Hastings’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hastings”. 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.