Iowa's crime rate is 15% lower than the national average but what are the top 20 safest Iowa cities?

In the 99 counties of Iowa there are 947 incorporated cities. Iowa comes in 15% below the national average of crime rate because there are fewer than four crimes reported for ever 1,000 people.

Topping the list is a town on the west side of the state, Sioux Center with less than two criminal incidents of any type for every 1,000 residents.

The Cedar Valley was represented by Cedar Falls which came in ranked number 13th. The stats came in as follows:

Cedar Falls
Population: 41,651
Violent crimes per 1,000: 1.58
Property crimes per 1,000: 17.00
Total crime: 9.29% violent, 90.71% property

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