The Boise metro area, the 76th-largest in the US, is home to 811,100 residents; Boise itself is the capital and largest city of Idaho · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in the Boise area?
Property crime is low in the Boise area: an A, safer than the neighborhoods where 74% of Americans live. Theft makes up 53% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A+, and vehicle theft grades A+. The city of Boise itself grades A for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 917 of 1,000Less property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
74% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than the Boise area as a whole, and 26% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Boise area scores 917.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Boise, ID at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Boise area, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in the Boise area
Car thefts run high in Depot Bench, Central Bench & Franklin Randolph. In this part of central Boise, they run at more than double the rate in the rest of Boise.
Burglaries and thefts both run low. In the Boise area, each runs at less than half the US rate: 0.93 burglaries and 5.8 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 13.1 nationally.
Thefts from cars happen at homes more often than nationally. In the Boise area, 59% of reported thefts from cars happen at homes, against 34% nationally.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in the Boise area
Nearly every part of the Boise area where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across the Boise area run from A+ to C.
99%
A or B 99%C 1%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of Boise
1Southwest Ada, southwestCar thefts run at less than half the rate in the rest of Boise.A+939
2Southeast Boise, southeastCar thefts run at less than half the rate in the rest of Boise.A+929
3Highlands & Boise Heights, northeastBurglaries run about 30% lower here than in the rest of Boise.A901
4Vista & Hillcrest, southClose to the rest of Boise on most crimes.A874
5West Valley & West Bench, northwestBurglaries run about 30% lower here than in the rest of Boise.A869
6Maple Grove-Franklin, westThefts run about 30% lower here than in the rest of Boise.A860
7East End & South Boise Village, eastCar thefts run about 50% higher here than in the rest of Boise.A-827
Neighborhood areas of the city of Boise, ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Boise metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Is property crime going up in the Boise area?
Reported property crime in the Boise area has fallen 43% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 13 to 7.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 11%.
Property crime, change since 2019
Boise areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the Boise area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Boise area
Property, US
2016
+39%
+15%
2017
+35%
+12%
2018
+21%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-6%
-8%
2021
-24%
-10%
2022
-25%
-6%
2023
-36%
-7%
2024
-43%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in the Boise area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Boise area has about 11 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 54% less than the US as a whole and close to Idaho.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in the Boise area, about 53% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in the Boise area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the Boise area, 2022 to 2024.
In the Boise area, 61% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 54% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (61%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in the Boise area and nearby metro areas
The Boise area has the least property crime of its 10 nearest metro areas.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Boise area. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Boise area is safer than 99% of them.
Empty homes, density and night lighting in the Boise area
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set the Boise area apart: it has 3.3% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 10% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, and it runs low here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.3.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 99% of Americans in metro areas
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.10% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 78% of Americans in metro areas
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.88% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 51% of Americans in metro areas
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs the Boise area
Property crime costs the Boise area about $62 million a year, or $76 per resident and about $221 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$6.8 million
$8
Theft
$24 million
$30
Vehicle theft
$10 million
$13
Arson
$1.4 million
$2
Vandalism
$19 million
$24
Total
$62 million
$76
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. These figures cover the whole Boise metro area. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
