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2015-04-02 17 24 37 View south along Maine Street in downtown Fallon, NevadaPhoto: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
C+
Safety in Fallon · FBI data, 2023–2025

Fallon sits close to the middle of U.S. towns for reported crime

Overall, Fallon grades C+ for safety (#3 of 11 graded towns in Nevada): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.

Violent crime
1.9
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of NV (4.1)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
13.2
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of NV (24.2)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
436
56 violent · 380 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NV” is every other Nevada 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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Fallon

Among Nevada towns, closer to the middle

Nevada’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Fallon’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 73% of the 11 Nevada towns we grade, against 44% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Fallon’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (1.9) 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. Its property rate (13.2) 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.

Where Fallon sits
C+ Violent 1.9C+ Property 13.2
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 44%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Nevada towns we grade (11)Less crime than 73% · #3 of 11
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 43%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 436 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Fallon anywhere from C+ to B−.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Fallon’s police reported 56 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.1 in the rest of Nevada and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 14 property crimes reported

And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (14.4)Violent crime (2.4)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Fallon2.4
Rest of NV3.9
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Fallon14.4
Rest of NV21.5
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Trend

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 Nevada.

Show as a table
YearFallon propertyRest of Nevada propertyFallon violentRest of Nevada violent
202214.425.71.74.8
202313.627.31.44.3
202411.523.92.14.1
202514.421.52.43.9

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

163 crimes reported in 2025

23 violent and 140 property, as reported to the FBI by Fallon’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft120
Burglary17
Vehicle theft3
Aggravated assault17
Robbery3
Rape3
Homicide0
Arson2
23
violent crimes
140
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

On the roads

Three people died in crashes on Fallon’s roads in 2019–2023

Fallon had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 2 were pedestrians.

That is about what is typical for Nevada towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (4.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Fallon’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fallon’s own rate (6.3) is context, not a ranking.

3
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
2
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
6.3
per 100,000 a year · Nevada towns of 5,000–25,000: 4.4

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.

Next door

Fallon and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Fallon
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
FallonC+1.913.2

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Nevada towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
FallonC+1.913.2
Boulder CityB1.77.9
WinnemuccaD6.616.3

The five graded Nevada towns closest to Fallon’s population (9,570), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Fallon. 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 Fallon’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,728 in 2025); our figure for Fallon is 9,570 (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 Fallon

Is Fallon, NV safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Fallon reports more crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #3 of 11 in Nevada. Its police reported 1.9 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.1 in the rest of Nevada and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

What is the crime rate in Fallon?

1.9 violent and 13.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Nevada reports 4.1 and 24.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.

Is crime going up or down in Fallon?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Fallon?

Fallon’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fallon”. 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.