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Rapid City Crime Rate Report (South Dakota)

Rapid City crime statistics report an overall upward trend in crime based on data from 21 years with violent crime increasing and property crime increasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Rapid City for 2025 is expected to be higher than in 2019.

The city violent crime rate for Rapid City in 2019 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 86.42% and the city property crime rate in Rapid City was higher than the national property crime rate average by 52.35%.

In 2019 the city violent crime rate in Rapid City was higher than the violent crime rate in South Dakota by 77.27% and the city property crime rate in Rapid City was higher than the property crime rate in South Dakota by 81.51%.

Property and Violent Crime
Rapid City Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
Rapid City Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

Rapid City Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2019 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault358
Arson9
Burglary488
Larceny and Theft1,646
Motor Vehicle Theft320
Murder and Manslaughter4
Rape114
Robbery64
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)2,680
Property Crime2,454
Violent Crime540
2025 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault421
Arson3
Burglary366
Larceny and Theft1,316
Motor Vehicle Theft426
Murder and Manslaughter5
Rape109
Robbery79
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)2,327
Property Crime2,101
Violent Crime614

Property and Violent Crime Totals

Rapid City Property Crime

Rapid City Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

Rapid City Crime 2019

Rapid City Crime 2025

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

Rapid City Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

Rapid City Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this Rapid City, South Dakota crime rate report is the FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement for the corresponding year or years. Arson numbers are reported inconsistently. Zero values may indicate the data was not available. The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends and crime data available from previous years of actual reported data. In this case, the Rapid City crime report data for 2025 was projected from 21 years of actual data. The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2019.

The FBI cautions the data users against comparing yearly statistical data solely on the basis of their population coverage. The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdicition.



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