The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Chubbuck, ID
Chubbuck is a city of 18,400 in Bannock County, about 4 miles north of downtown Pocatello · Updated November 2026
Is Chubbuck, ID safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Chubbuck is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Chubbuck sits near the middle: 42% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 58% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Chubbuck run from A+ to B, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 795 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
42% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Chubbuck as a whole, and 58% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Chubbuck scores 795.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Chubbuck, ID at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Chubbuck, 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 in Chubbuck
Car thefts are less common than the crime level suggests. Crime overall in Chubbuck runs 33% above the US rate, but car thefts run at less than half that rate: 0.89 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Thefts run high for an A-graded city. Chubbuck has 23.2 thefts a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 8.3.
The safest and least safe parts of Chubbuck
Every part of Chubbuck where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Chubbuck run from A+ to B; 24% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Chubbuck, the southwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Chubbuck?
Reported violent crime in Chubbuck peaked in 2021 and has fallen 23% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 24% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.5 to 2.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 36 to 27 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 14%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
ChubbuckUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Chubbuck. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Chubbuck
Violent, US
Property, Chubbuck
Property, US
2016
-21%
+4%
+5%
+15%
2017
-12%
+4%
-3%
+12%
2018
+46%
+0%
+25%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+25%
+4%
-16%
-8%
2021
+38%
+6%
-27%
-10%
2022
+9%
+5%
-29%
-6%
2023
+29%
+2%
-12%
-7%
2024
+6%
-4%
-24%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Chubbuck
CrimeGrade™ estimates Chubbuck has about 49 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 33% more than the US as a whole and more than double the rate for Idaho.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 47% of crime reported in Chubbuck. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 crime happens in Chubbuck
Chubbuck has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Chubbuck, 48% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 47% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (50%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Homes (47%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (51%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (74%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Chubbuck compares with nearby cities
Chubbuck has the most crime of its 4 nearest cities.
Two things set Chubbuck apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (11 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 4.2% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and assault, yet theft and assault run higher here than that would suggest.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Chubbuck: F (6 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.13.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 76% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 93% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (11 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 74% of US city residents
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 70% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.9% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 64% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 63% of US city residents
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 crime costs Chubbuck
Crime costs Chubbuck about $1,142 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 5% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $15 million a year, or $841 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$190,000
$11
Rape
$250,000
$14
Robbery
$15,000
$1
Assault
$3.6 million
$194
Burglary
$380,000
$21
Theft
$2.2 million
$119
Vehicle theft
$250,000
$14
Arson
$8,300
under $1
Vandalism
$410,000
$22
Total
$7.3 million
$395
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Chubbuck means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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. 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
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
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.
Schools in Chubbuck, ID average a SchoolGrade of B+: 49% of students test proficient, against 43% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Chubbuck on SchoolGrade
