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Safety in Boise City · FBI data, 2023–2025

Less violent crime is recorded per resident in Boise City than in 91% of U.S. towns

In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Boise City at A−: less crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns. On top of that, typical years here bring 0.3 violent crime plus 8.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 4.7 plus 22.6 in the rest of Oklahoma.

Violent crime
0.3
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of OK (4.7)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
8.2
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of OK (22.6)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
28
1 violent · 27 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 OK” is every other Oklahoma 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Boise City’s grade

Where Boise City sits
A Violent 0.3B Property 8.2
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 77%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 67%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 28 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Boise City anywhere from B+ to A.

How TownRatings grades safety →

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

Violent crime, by year and by type

Boise City’s police reported 1 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Boise City per 1,000 residents

Property crime (7.6)Violent crime (0.9)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Boise City0.9
Rest of OK4.6
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Boise City7.6
Rest of OK20.7
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.

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

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Show as a table
YearBoise City propertyRest of Oklahoma propertyBoise City violentRest of Oklahoma violent
202217.026.24.54.7
202310.624.40.04.7
20246.422.70.04.9
20257.620.70.94.6

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, 2022–2025, against the rest of Oklahoma.

What gets reported

9 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft7
Burglary1
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault1
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
1
violent crimes
8
property crimes

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

1 violent and 8 property, as reported to the FBI by Boise City’s police.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Boise City’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for Oklahoma towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Boise City’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Boise City’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Oklahoma towns of 2,500–5,000: 6.1

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

Boise City and its neighbors

Boise City
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Boise CityA−0.38.2

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

Oklahoma towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
Boise CityA−0.38.2
KellyvilleA−1.05.5
OkeeneB−2.66.8
Rush SpringsC+2.99.8
MeekerC+3.97.5
YaleC−3.422.0

The five graded Oklahoma towns closest to Boise City’s population (1,040), by grade.

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

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 Boise City. 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 Boise City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,057 in 2025); our figure for Boise City is 1,040 (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 Boise City

Is Boise City, OK safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Boise City reports less crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

What is the crime rate in Boise City?

0.3 violent and 8.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Oklahoma reports 4.7 and 22.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.

Who polices Boise City?

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