The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Rexburg, ID
Rexburg is the tenth-largest city in Idaho, with 47,800 residents in Madison County, about 25 miles northeast of downtown Idaho Falls · Updated November 2026
Is Rexburg, ID safe?
Yes. Crime is low across most of the US, and lower still in Rexburg: an overall CrimeGrade™ of A+, safer than the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A+ here. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A+ to A; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 955 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
88% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Rexburg as a whole, and 12% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Rexburg scores 955.
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 Rexburg, ID at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Rexburg, 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 Rexburg
Burglaries and aggravated assaults both run low. In Rexburg, each runs at a small fraction of the US rate: 0.47 burglaries and 0.45 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 2.6 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Rexburg
Every part of Rexburg where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Rexburg run from A+ to A; every part of Rexburg has 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 Rexburg, the southwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Rexburg?
Reported property crime in Rexburg has risen 16% since 2019. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 4.5 to 5.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 48%.
Property crime, change since 2019
RexburgUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Rexburg. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Rexburg
Property, US
2016
+51%
+15%
2017
+55%
+12%
2018
+11%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-31%
-8%
2021
-8%
-10%
2022
-6%
-6%
2023
-22%
-7%
2024
+16%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Rexburg
CrimeGrade™ estimates Rexburg has about 8.2 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 78% less than the US as a whole and 60% less than 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 51% of crime reported in Rexburg. 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 Rexburg
Rexburg has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 84% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (84%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (38%)
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 Rexburg compares with nearby cities
Rexburg has the most crime of its 4 nearest cities.
Two things set Rexburg apart: it has 9.9% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 53% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run lower here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.9.9% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 85% of US city residents
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 Rexburg: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% 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. 67% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (31 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 82% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.53% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 84% of US city residents
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.83% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 68% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.32 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 67% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Rexburg on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Rexburg
Crime costs Rexburg about $416 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 66% 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 $16 million a year, or $335 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1,000,000
$21
Rape
$560,000
$12
Robbery
$13,000
under $1
Assault
$1.1 million
$22
Burglary
$200,000
$4
Theft
$1.0 million
$22
Vehicle theft
$160,000
$3
Arson
$60,000
$1
Vandalism
$470,000
$10
Total
$4.5 million
$95
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 Rexburg 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 Rexburg, ID average a SchoolGrade of B-: 45% of students test proficient, against 43% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Rexburg on SchoolGrade
